At 10:34 AM -0500 4/24/01, Jeff Bone wrote:
> think about c --- light speed defines a maximum
>signal propagation velocity, hence latency ~ distance.
> ...
> but any interplanetary or bigger
>network is going to have a fuzzier notion of connected vs. disconnected.
Yep.
It would be interesting to imagine what happens when chips get fast
enough that *RAM* is "a few weeks away by stagecoach".
Munching,
Rohit
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