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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
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Subject: Re: This is serious!
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 10:09:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 10:09:22 1985
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Summary: Computer Inertia Kills!

In article <2264@amdcad.UUCP> bcase@amdcad.UUCP (Brian case) writes:
>
>Following is an excerpt from an old Apple user's group newsletter
>			POTENTIAL PROBLEM
>			by Jerry W. Fewel
>  ...explains computer inertia...

   Of *course* it's serious.  In fact, some super-computers have to be mounted
on a special track, with  springs, coils, etc., in order to bring the machine 
to a complete stop safely.  Imagine, if you will, a computer mounted sorta 
like a recoiless howitzer and you'll get the idea.
   Conversely, some machines are so slow that you have to wait several minutes
after running the last program to power them down in order to allow the last
few instructions to catch up.  Really!
-- 
 - joel "vo" plutchak
{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster

"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
all confusion."