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From: ins_aaaw@jhunix.UUCP (Adlai A. Waksman)
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Subject: Re: A new PC from Cray?
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Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 15:37:40 EST
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> >>Actually, it uses thiotimoline-based organic superconducting circuits.
> >
> >Making humidity control in the machine room a critical factor in
> >maintaining reliability of operation!
> 
>    Please note that that use of thiotimoline in switching circuits to
> produce negative response times is a trade secret of Nonexistant
> Semiconductors.  It is obvious that you have leaked information from
> the highly secret NoSe Surreal-Time Computation research group.
  . . .

Not obvious at all.  The endochronic properties of thiotimoline are
well documented in the biochemical literature*, and many researchers
have been independently working with negative-response-time computation.
This is enabling breakthroughs in complexity theory and computability,
making possible algorithms and solutions that were hitherto impossible
because they cannot be conventionally done in a finite amount of time.


* "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline", Asimov
  (widely printed)


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