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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:39:12 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote..
> ...
> > It's a pity that the modern PC is hamstrung by design decisions made
> > over 25 years ago.
> 
> sorry, but couldn't help it :-)
> 
> The US Standard railroad gauge (distance between the  rails) is 4
> feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.  Why was that
> gauge  used?   Because that's the way they built them in England,
> and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.
> 
> Why did the  English people build them like that?

Why would any sane person continue to use inches, feet, stones, yards
etc etc anyway?

>:-)

Wilko

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org