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From: TMURPHY@WPI.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: data extraction
Message-ID: <8804082353.AA23048@wpi.local>
Date: 8 Apr 88 23:53:02 GMT
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 >No need to wait for a technological breakthrough, just make your black holes
small enough and they will eventually lose mass through tunnelling (you thought
300 baud was slow!) to the point they cease to be black holes and burst upon
the universe in a massive core dump.  the result is WORML technology (write
once, read millenium later).

& ~p
Well, we thought of that, but this results in a VERY random-access device,
and was therefore not considered further.

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Thomas C. Murphy         Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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