Now ... don't confuse ladency (bandwidth) with latency (throughput).
"An SST, may be. Just not an 747, that's my point."
[Blame Jimmo for this!]
-- R;
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Well, yea, I suppose if you could get *two* swallows to cooperate, they
could carry a 3592 tape cartridge between them. Even a 3592 cartridge
fully laden with 300 GB of data weighs less than a coconut, but I still
say the air speed of two such swallows would be somewhat less than, say,
a 747.....:-)
DJ
Richard Troth wrote:
>
> Sir Dave the Generous spake:
> > You don't seriously expect us to believe that a swallow
> > (African or any other kind...) can grasp a 3592 tape cartridge,
> > do you? They have no husks, as you know......;-)
>
> Perhaps he's suggesting that cores migrate? (cat herders ... they've
> seen it all, you know!)
>
> Wait a minute! Supposing *two* swallows carried a 3592 together? * ...
> *simple! They'd just use a strand of 9-track held under the dorsal
> guiding feathers! Well, why not?
>
> -- R;
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