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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 15:28:08 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1

In alt.folklore.computers, article <1992Dec11.060711.20392@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
  jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
> In article <Bz13Cn.8y0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:
> >urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
> >
> >>Definitely not me. It's a random selection from my Fortunes file
> >>(currently 28885 entries, almost duplicate-free, and going strong :-).
> >
> >>DO NOT ask me for the file.
> >
> >how about putting it up for FTP somewhere?  sunsite.unc.com perhaps?
> >
Will do soon.

> >The fortunes files I have access to seem rather small... I'd kill for
> >a good sized one.. =)
> 
> Hey! last time I checked, the University of North Carolina was still
> a (more or less) educational institution.
> 
;-)

> I'd be glad to give a canonical fortune file a home, but from the caps,
> I suspect Matthias' reason is more than an unwillingness to mail it out
> to everyone.
> 
Nope, the reason is an _inability_ to mail it out to everyone.
I have to pay $.02 per kByte (both directions).

I'd like to include a few more fortunes into that file before actually
putting the mother of all fortune files  ;-)  up for FTP anywhere.

> Btw, speaking of cool things... Thanks to francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au
> I have a copy of the Chernenko forgery April Fools  posting as
> /pub/docs/about-the-net/Usenet/moskvax-april-fools on 
> sunsite.unc.edu

Pure history... Do other April Fools postings still exist somewhere?
I'd hate them to have gone to net.heaven.

-- 
Have you seen the latest Japanese camera? Apparently it is so
fast it can photograph an American with his mouth shut!
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.urban
From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Proper pronunciation of 'Kibo' IN BED
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:43:53 GMT

In article <Bz16F0.HMD@world.std.com>, kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:

|> And I *am* a bunch of grapes!
 
Kibo-Man! Kibo-Man! 
Does whatever a Kibo can!
Rot-13's, greps the Net,
There's no type he can't set.
Hey there, there goes the Kibo-Man.
 
Can he boze? Quite a lot!
He's got more slack than Spot.
Does he post? Yes sirree:
All about Kibology.
Look out, here comes the Kibo-Man. 
 
All across the Net, with no fear of a flame,
He's a kibological threat; if you dare, type his name! 
 
Kibo-Man, Kibo-Man,
Postbozotical Kibo-Man!
To him, Usenet is one big tirade,
Wherever there's a cascade,
You'll find the Kibo-Man!
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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Date: 16 Dec 92 11:25:54 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1gnh6lINNqqg@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, sarr@sinshan.citi.umich.edu (Sarr J. Blumson) writes:
> 
> A tricky one.  In this reality what's killed DEC and all of the other
> large system builders is the appearance of small, cheap machines, all
> of which adopted many of the features (eg the evil 8 bit byte) that
> cjl hates.  If DEC were trying to compete with 36 bit word machines,
> they might be right where they are now.  On the other hand many of
> those microprocessors were inspired by the 11, and if DEC had never
> started down that path maybe the 8008 would have been a 12 bit
> machine.  Of course there was IBM too...

The 8008 inspired by the '11? It's about as far away from an 11 as you can
get! The 4004 probably would still have been a 4-bit machine, and the 8008
would still have evolved from that.
-- 

Roger Ivie                      "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
ivie@cc.usu.edu                  It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
                                 into mutants!"
From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Date: 19 Dec 1992 02:37:32 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu
Keywords: PDP 10, gods gift to hackers, TOPS, ITS

Oh, come on.  For the full KL architecture spec, the address space is approx.
equiv. to 2^34 - 2^35 "bytes" (using 8 bit byte terminology).  That's more
than the vax.  Half of that is user space, same as the VAX.-kby
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: octal to decimal converter?
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 15 Dec 92 10:29:03 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In many instances, the PDP-8 wins hands down on programming for the shortest
> number of instructions to solve a particular problem, assuming that 12 bits
> is enough to solve it at all.  In many cases, a highly particularized machine

Are you sure?  I'd have thought it would do well on a word count, but not
an instruction count.  After all, the whole point of two or three 
operand orthogonal multiple register architectures like the pdp11, VAX,
68k etc was to reduce the instruction count by eliminating the load, store
& register transfer instructions that slowed single operand accumulator
machines down.  This was quite a win when memories could keep up with CPUs 
and instruction phases were synchronous, but multiple operand has proven to
be something of a loser these days when CPU clocks far outstrip memory
speeds and umpteen things are happening at once in the CPU.  (Large
orthogonal register files are here to stay however.  Multiple operand hasn't
gone altogether -- it's still there, as long as the "operands" are registers.)

Also, doesn't fooling around with the 128 word page size add a bit to the
instruction count on all but very trivial applications on the PDP-8?

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
From: ercm20@festival.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: man - command
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:06:30 GMT

ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
> Just wondering idly - has anybody in the known history of UNIX ever
> complained about the fact that the command to print out manual pages
> is called man(1) and not woman(1)?

Shouldn't this be in the Flame Wars thread? :-)

Sam
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.urban,alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Proper pronunciation of 'Kibo' IN BED
Keywords: Kibo-nature, slack
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:30:26 GMT

In article <1gjbapINNgsi@sal-sun24.usc.edu> pechever@sal-sun24.usc.edu (The Heckler) writes:
>
>			the heckler (Is "Cthibo" taken?)

Why, is Kibo Kosher? (Can you make Kibo Brei?) (Does it contain Vitamin B2 aka
Kiboflavin?)

obKosherUL: the O in KIBO has a U inside of it. (And you can guess what the
K means.)

CJ "What bo is the Cthibo (or the Kibo) connected to" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: PDP ftp archive
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:17:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.114337.15485@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <1992Nov21.003656.17491@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
>>>	PDP-10 1967            36    A PDP-6 upgrade, great timesharing.
>>
>>				     Not exactly--more a revival.
> 
> Upgrade is an unfortunate word.  I think the reference is to the fact that
> they are instruction-set compatible, and that time-sharing didn't really
> happen on a -6.
> 
Remind me to appologise to the other 31 users who weren't there...

>>	The DEC-20 is the outgrowth of a smart decision by DEC:  License the
>>	TENEX operating system written for the Dec-10 by Bolt, Beranek, and
>>	Newman, which featured real demand-paged virtual memory, and sell it
>>	as an *alternative to*, not a replacement for, Tops-10, which was the
>>	descendant of the *batch-processing* operating system on the PDP-6 and
>>	early PDP-10s.
> 
> But the -20 *is* a -10.  What's the difference between a KL-10 and the
> high-end -20, the color of the cabinet?  Yes, you don't run TOPS-20 on
> a KA-10, but a KL can be called anything you want.  The point is that model

And the micro-code till Bottoms 7.3.

~Paul
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Date: 13 Dec 92 10:36:22 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

2Dec12.200339.24848@news.columbia.edu>
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Dec12.200339.24848@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.
edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <Bz3zJI.B0o@sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
>>
>>It started much earlier, as a flame war, but in 300 B.C. someone pulled the
>>plug on the Usenet link between Greece and Turkey, hoping that that would
>>stop the flames coming in.  It didn't work out quite the way he expected.
>
>Who was in tthe Backbone Cabal then?
>

Um, Gene Spafford, Kibo, the usual suspects.
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The puppy is dead - alt.folklore.computers will not change
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:13:38 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <184650@pyramid.pyramid.com> lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowel
l) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.183238.15067@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JK
F) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec15.122951.6200@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) write
s:
>>>
>>>
>>>For details, watch for a posting with RESULT and comp.society.folklore
>>>in the Subject line, coming soon to these newsgroups.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com
>>
>>HOORAY!  WE DID IT!
>
>
>   Did ANYONE other than Dan Quayle and Zippy the Pinhead actually
>   vote for this turkey?
>
>   And if they did, would they admit it publicly?

Maynard did and continues to claim that there is absolutely no way he can
telnet to another site to receive news.  He's a lying bastard, of course.  The
twit who brought up the CFV in the first place, Mark Brader, claimed that he
had a fascistic news admin who absolutely would not carry alt. groups at
sq.com.  Note that Brader has recently begun posting to alt.folklore.* groups
_from sq.com_.  Obviously his news admin changed his mind.  Nice of Mark to
subject us all to an idiotic CFV when it appears that he's managing to read and
post to alt groups with no trouble at all.
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From: nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Proper pronunciation of 'Kibo' IN BED
Keywords: Kibo-nature, slack
Date: 15 Dec 92 04:25:20 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


	Real cruel thing to do.  Put the word "Kibo" into your
.sig.    :)
-- 
Nicholas C. Weaver                                nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.
From: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: New "Hello" program
Date: 11 Dec 92 15:47:09 GMT
Reply-To: kiki@bass.bu.edu (Keith Baccki)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Dec8.194656.16401@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> c3q@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>a new hello program:
>
>#define NETWORK_WIZARD  "Daniel Max P. Drucker"
>#define MY_RESPONSE     "caused me to start a kill file for the first time"
>
>void main(void){
>
>	printf("%s %s\n", NETWORK_WIZARD, MY_RESPONSE);
>
>}


	First I laughed. Then I said "hey, it doesn't say
'hello' - I like the one in K&R better...". So in the end
I can only conclude:

	Take a.f.c with a grain of salt, especially when
	the poster shares his last name with a character
	in Green Acres.



keith
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: PDP-11: A Physical Threat : )
Keywords: Hit'n'Run
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:23:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.135126.2632@spatula.rent.com> azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:

[Stuff deleted]

>
>Perhaps you should purchase a clue from your local retailer, and
>fix your line length. Even tho the article text is right above me, I
>have no want to read it when the lines are as fucked up like this.
>
Just wondering... What is your first language?

Cheers,  Ian S.



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From: mike@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Mike Vevea)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Slide Rule source found!
Date: 19 Dec 92 23:25:30 GMT
Organization: Mass General Hospital NMR Imaging Center

For all who have been posting, begging for a source of slide rules, I
happened to find one.  It turns out that, while they also sell stuff 
that annoy people here, (like parts of their old machines), the Computer
Museum in Boston also sells slide rules!  Because I've seen a couple of
dozen requests here, I asked about what they have.  The person on duty
said that he believes that they have `a couple of hundred left'; they
seem to have obtained clearance stock somewhere...the ones on display
were assorted models.  He said that the prices run from `about $12 to
the mid twenties'.  He didn't have a catalog, so I can't copy more details,
but I picked up a business card, with the following information:
    The Computer Museum
    300 Contress St
    Boston, MA 02210

    Heidi M. Ochoa
    Manager, Retail Operations x306

    Tel  1-617-426-2800

(I did ask whether they minded a possible heavy rush of interested
people; the response was a laugh.  He did say that it was OK to post
the address & phone number for people who are interested.)

-- 
mikeV  <mike@nmr-mike.mgh.harvard.edu>
From: FELSON_ADJ@CCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: PI
Date: 20 Dec 1992 22:19:14 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

From: sibley@math.psu.edu (David Sibley)
! 
! In article <BzL5KM.4Ax@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
!   [stuff deleted]
! >I read an article which made fun of people seeking large numbers of PI digits,
! >as a circle with the radius of earth's orbit can be approximated to within 2cm
! >with only 7(?) digits.  Can anyone cite an exact source?  (what? here in the
! >alt.folklore heirarchy?  heh)
! 
! Well, I hope there's no source for this.  It's badly wrong.
! 
! Presuming you mean to compute the circumference of such a circle from
! its radius, using pi to only 7 digits (after the decimal point, 8 digits
! total) yields an error of over 1 million centimeters.  That's a lot more
! than 2 centimeters.
! 
! When readers don't know enough to check, I suppose a writer can say
! anything in an article.  Sigh.
! 
! This still doesn't justify finding pi to billions of decimal places, of
! course.
! 

Actually 14 digits should do the trick:
  2cm / 93E6mi ~= 1.3e-13

I'm quite lazy... I only used two digits for the radius of the earth's orbit,
and I let my HP48 handle all the units.


__a__d__a__m__
From: nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:06:55 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


	{Discussions on if apple had a CLI deleted}

	The reason for a command line interface is simple, there are certain
things that you can do in a CLI that you can't do in a GUI.  For example,
try moving all files starting with Let to the directory Letters.  How do you
do this easily in a GUI?  A CLI for some purposes is superior, because of
it's higher level of abstraction.  Just because a CLI is offered doesn't
mean that it's used very often, or even encouraged.  (Witness NeXT.  Yes,
there is a full Unix, and you can shell in anytime you want, however, most
user's don't unless they are doing specific things that work better in a
command line situation).

	
-- 
Nicholas C. Weaver                                nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.
From: gsc@coombs.anu.edu.au (Sean Case)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: WANTED: PDP-10 or 11
Date: 17 Dec 92 09:35:24 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>apparently people from the world of Oz and similar environs missed out on
>just what a PDP-10 usually meant to those of us more than incidentally exposed.

That particular post was from New Zealand, which, it might be argued,
is to Australia as the PDP-11 is to the PDP-10... not that _I'd_ say
anything like that...

There were quite a few 10's in Australia, including two at my old
university (ANU) and, I think, one at the ACT Electricity and Water
Authority. One at the Queensland University of Technology was
shut down just this year. I don't know of any still running, but
would like to hear from anyone who does.

New Zealand is another story.

Sean Case
--
Sean Case               gsc@coombs.anu.edu.au
"[...] if a poststructuralist doesn't get you,
 a deconstructionist will."--Ursula K. LeGuin
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Our friend, R. Morris.  was: Re: Famous flame wars, examples please?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 06:55:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.143045.19044@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>Does anyone have an article on the history of internet worm?

No article and I'm fuzzy on the details, but the short is:

>How it worked, who got hit, and actions to prevent
>it occuring again?

Exploited a bug in SMTP, everyone, 10 times, fixed the bug in SMTP.

>Thanks in advance,  Lachlan.
>
>PS: I'm not after source code - I'm just curious.

Sure,  uh huh.  :)

>-- 
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--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: henry@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Henry Bloomfield)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: ---- E L I T E ----
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:46:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <J.HALLETT.92Dec16103523@louis.ecs.soton.ac.uk> J.Hallett@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Jon. Hallett) writes:

>In article <1992Dec8.010021.80@rediris.es> mcastro@rediris.es writes:

>RIGHT ON COMMANDER!  And I still have the badge (one of the nice
>enamel ones) from the competition.  I became Elite on a combination of
>the Electron and the BBC (Tape!)  versions.  IMHO, the Beeb disk
>version was the classic, but I never had a Beeb with a drive.  I did
>have the analogue joysticks though---perfect for playing Elite.

>Actually, I seem to remember that I spent 1985 playing Elite.  Ho hum.

Yes, same here; on a BBC Disk system with Analogue joysticks. I
only ever became "Dangerous" though... (and I have the badge
still!) That "Right on Commander" above brings it all back...

Chuckie Egg? Castle Quest?

Henry


--
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From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What is so greate about the PDP 10?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:32:05 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu

ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!) writes:

>In article <1g8tf6INNfrl@gap.caltech.edu>, kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap) writes:
>> It was always fairly easy to do what you wanted to do, and the result was
>> usually fairly logical code (unless you deliberately did something for
>> speed or whatever; recall HACK.MEM).  The example I remember most is LSH
>> (logical shift)  LSH AC,positive shifts the AC to the left and LSH AC,negative
>> shifts to the right.  You could compute how many bits you wanted to shift
>> and not care the sign of the result; the same instruction accomplishes
>> the "desired" result.  On VAX, you need to do an EXTZV to go right and
>> an ASH to go left.

>Not true. ASH with a negative shift count will go right. I do it all the time.

>-- 

>Roger Ivie                      "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
>ivie@cc.usu.edu                  It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
>                                 into mutants!"

Yes, it goes right, but it doesn't do a LSH (it shifts the sign bit in).-kby

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS being discontinued Dec 1992
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:02:40 GMT

In article <5VJoVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin) writes:
>Macintosh? They just don't come much more proprietary than the Mac...

Argh!  Why does EVERYONE ignore the Amiga.  :)

>| C. Matthew Curtin             ! "But I am the enlightened one, they are  |
>|_cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com_____!_____________GNO_your_AppleIIGS!__________|


--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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From: ST201026@brownvm.brown.edu (nathan marsh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.science
Subject: mean failure time vs power-to-weight ratio (was: Re: Sig file)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:35:55 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

In article <1gqv3tINN6so@news.aero.org>, shag@aero.org (Robert M. Unverzagt)
said:
>He plotted power-to-weight ratio vs. mean time to failure for
>all sorts of things -- alarm clocks, cars, gas turbines,
>Saturn V's, etc. on log-log paper.  You guessed it -- it's a
>line.

So which way does the line go?

(When you increase power-to-weight ratio, what happens to the mean failure
time, does it increase or decrease?)

I'd assume that a higher power-to-weight ratio indicates a lower mean failure
time, because the power beign generated applies stress to smaller/lighter
parts...thus inducing failure at some earlier time.

 -n
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 -nathan marsh
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