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Re: Re: Summary A



>> But do we need that much? I know I'm on a hot issue 
>> here, 20 years ago no one did see the need for computers 
>> either.
>> But now that we know what we can do with computers 
>> we can make a better estimation of what we need as a 
>> minimum. I've read that the Space Shuttle has less than
>> 1 Mb of memory (256 Kb?) so that would give us a idea 
>> of what we need and what we want.
>
>Actually the shuttles data limits were a constant problem, even safty
>problem.

Do you know why they didn't replace them? Or was replacing them an even
bigger safety problem?

>>I didn't know they where thAt save, nice to know though.
>> Here in Holland we have some guy who is turning an old 
>> nuclear reactor plant in a recreation palace.
>
>??  I never thought they were that interesting.

He's building a hotel inside it, with a restaurant, a bowling area and
probably a swimming pool where the core was previousely.


Timothy