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From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Grumbles
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 21:23:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 21:23:26 1985
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Nf-From: wdl1!jbn    Sep 20 15:42:00 1985

Things to be annoyed about this week:

	1.  256K RAMs are now $2.69 each; why are 1Mb RAM boards for SUNs
	    about $4,000?

	2.  Imagen 8/300s and Imagen 24/300s need different fonts; the Xerox
	    engine produces narrower lines than the Canon given the same bits.

	3.  All the good industrial robots that have a decent reach need
	    compressed air or hydraulic power.

	4.  Just when Berkeley finally fixed that terrible TCP of theirs
	    for 4.3, DARPA wants them to use BBN's TCP.

	5.  All the VMEbus synchronous comm boards with DMA don't have enough
	    DMA channels to drive all the ports full speed at the same time.

					John Nagle


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