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From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cryo-refrigerators
Message-ID: <1989Mar13.163928.14004@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 21:39:27 GMT
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In article <Mar.13.15.58.38.1989.8399@klaatu.rutgers.edu> josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes:

>A 3000-mile loop is a bit much, I would think.  You don't want that
>anyway; it would give you 16 millisecond latency.  3000 miles of
>50-micron fiber occupies about 250 cubic meters, the volume of a small
>house. 

3000 miles x (50 microns)^2 = .012 cubic meters, or about 12 liters.

	Paul F. Dietz
	dietz@cs.rochester.edu