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From: ins_ampm@jhunix.UUCP (Michael P McKenna)
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Subject: Re: A new PC from Cray?
Message-ID: <2134@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 23:02:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 23:02:43 1986
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In article <2126@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aaaw@jhunix.UUCP (Adlai A. Waksman) writes:
>> >>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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