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From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Out of Virtual Memory?
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 22:21:33 EST
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> . . . . consider two pairs
> of antennae, positioned arbitrarily far apart, with one antenna sending a
> stream of bits to the remote antenna, which then reflects back the signal
> via the other antenna of the pair.  Clearly this is a storage medium, and
> does not use any atoms to actually store the data; and if positioned
> arbitrarily far apart (assuming the signal would still be detectable at the
> remote site) could store arbitrarily much data.

This is an interesting idea, but sounds a bit tough to implement.

A more realistic variation might involve sending the data over a line
which imposes an arbitrarily long delay.  To this end, how about using
USENET, or, better yet, USNAIL (of course, in either of these cases,
you wouldn't want to worry about disappearing data)?

(I just LOVE silliness.  Reaaaaalllly, I do.)

					Phil Kos
					The Johns Hopkins Hospital
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