Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo!zvs From: zvs@bby.oz.au (Zev Sero) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Looking Backwards Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 90 02:13:16 GMT References: <9001010220.AA17906@world.std.com> <752@arc.UUCP> <1990Jan5.065546.777@sq.sq.com> Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: msb@sq.sq.com's message of 5 Jan 90 06:55:46 GMT In article <1990Jan5.065546.777@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes: > o The standard lap/desk-top computer will be 8.5x11x.5 inches. The > display will go all the way to the edge ... Non-American models will of course be A4 size* by 1 cm. See signature quote. [extolling the metric system] * 2^-1.75 x 2^-2.25 m (^ denoting exponentiation), about 8.3 x 11.7 in. If you're so keen on the metric system, why don't you use standard SI units? The A4 size paper is (according to a packet of Reflex photocopying paper) 210 x 297 mm. -- Zev Sero - zvs@bby.oz.au Fault, n. One of my offenses, as opposed to one of yours, the latter being crimes. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"