Re: computers and the china syndrome.
In reply to #6330 Computers by Anthony K. Baggaley
> Bundle: 517 > Archive-Message-Number: 6330 > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 10:46:06 GMT > From: "Anthony K. Baggaley" [email removed] > Subject: Computers > > Re: Virus, Computer Power etc. > (This computer ain't had the wheels fitted for the copy command yet...) > > I realised that larger computers need power closer to the Book 5 /MT > requirements, but 250 MEGAWATTS??? (for about a Mod4: it's been a few years > since I used High Guard). A friend once said if you work out the heat that > produces it melts the whole thing in seconds (and I'm the one with the > chemistry degree so I should work it out). That's what will happen to a large Cray Mainframe if you take away the cooling unit. Check it out, many of CRI's early patents are for spiffy *cooling* technology. Matt - -- Matthew Goldman E-mail: [email removed] Work: [phone removed] "The DCI does not wake with a hangover and decide to assassinate someone. Last Tuesday doesn't count."