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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Terry: a bystanders view...
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:32:18 -0700 (MST)
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> Moral: You may be the bigger animal, but when facing these kind of
> numbers the right thing to say is "Nice kitty!" :-)

Heh.  But kitties are amennable to parallel soultion, or to gated
tasking (through a kitty-door) because each kitty is topoligically
equivalent.

So you could:

Open gate <-----.
    |           |
    v           |
Obtain cat      |
    |           |
    v           |
Close gate      |
    |           |
    v           |
"Process" cat   | <- subroutine detailed in original posting
    |           |
    v           |
More cats? Y----'
    N
    |
    v
  done

I call this approach KATS-switching...  8-).

OR

Whack!  Whack!  Whack!  Whack! Whack! ... Whack!
Meow!   Meow!   Meow!   Meow!  Meow!  ... Meow!
Whack!  Whack!  Whack!  Whack! Whack! ... Whack!
Meow!   Meow!   Meow!   Meow!  Meow!  ... Meow!
Whack!  Whack!  Whack!  Whack! Whack! ... Whack!
Meow!   Meow!   Meow!   Meow!  Meow!  ... Meow!
Whack!  Whack!  Whack!  Whack! Whack! ... Whack!
 ...     ...     ...     ...    ...        ...
Whack!  Whack!  Whack!  Whack! Whack! ... Whack!
 ...     ...     ...     ...    ...        ...
Whack!  Whack!  Whack!  Whack! Whack! ... Whack!

I call this approach PURRallel PURRcessing... 8-).


The second, of course, depends on how many midieval old women you can
effectivel say "Nee!" to at the same time.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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