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From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
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To: remy@boostworks.com
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Subject: Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer... 
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:19:58 -0500
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In message <200008221717.TAA23213@luxren2.boostworks.com>, Remy Nonnenmacher wr
ites:
>On 22 Aug, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> Look, I don't think we want to confuse the kid.  It's bad enough that the
>> crossways "8 inches" just refers to a standard octet, but the vertical 11
>> inches is a 2^N thing.  It's worse still that, on most platforms, the page
>> is really 12 or 13 inches.

>> I wanted to start him with the easy case.

>Rigth. 0.33 meter in processors running in Europe countries.
>(Using Metric RAM, or MRAM).

Sheesh!  The sad thing is, after all the other crap in this thread, he'll
think you're joking.

-s


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