makes me not want to buy a new pc just yet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/22/te...partner=GOOGLE

On Tuesday, Sun researchers plan to report that they have discovered a
way to transmit data inside a computer much more quickly than current
techniques allow. By placing the edge of one chip directly in contact
with its neighbor, it may be possible to move data 60 to 100 times as
fast as the present top speeds.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:34:16 GMT, "john bailo" <jabailo@earthlink.net>
wrote or quoted :

The new Sun chip has tiny transmitters that are only a few microns in
width. In addition to having many more connecting points, the chip
should consume far less power. The chip's additional channels increase
the processing speed, like adding lanes to a highway; being able to
eliminate the pads is another benefit of the chip's design, like
getting rid of a series of tollbooths.

Sounds like it could be optically signalling to the nearby chips using
many channels. I guess the problem is aligning them and keeping them
aligned.

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

Hi Antonio ,
Of Sun's press release , You scratch out :
" Makes me not want to buy a new PC just yet . "


Oh God ... Don't hold your breath .

While Sun produces these fantastical press releases ,
Asians are actually shipping things that people buy .

"Jeff Relf" <__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> wrote in message
news:18imsj9if3ggk.dlg@__.Jeff.Relf...
Frequently containing no US made parts at all.

john bailo wrote:
It would be nice if Sun does this, but you also have to remember all who
have come before have failed! This idea is nothing new, just a new
approch to the problem, which may or may not work, even Sun doesn't know
if they can make it work. On the other hand, we could see something like
this http://www.economist.com/printeditio...ory_ID=2051736
in the next couple years.

Roedy Green wrote:
Not really. Every centimeter that is reduced between chips
will allow the entire bus to run faster. If the entire
computer were on a single small chip, the speeds would be
fantastic. It is one of the major problems with aircraft
carriers getting data from one system to another that is
over several yards away... remember that it takes time to
travel the distance.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 02:43:30 GMT, "Quantum Leaper"
<leaper@bigfoot.com> wrote:


eh, carbon nanaotube production iz-up, optronix iz gaining favour,
ways of using ultra ultra-violet lithography are being exploited,
and wafer fabrication is becoming passe. no etchantz needed anymore

but, like the petrodollar and fissionable fuels, silicon gonna get
whored-out untill itz totally fucked, and can't make a red scent

....forget the yankee dollar. it ain't worth a plugged nickel no-mo

everyone waz too-busy worrying about the commies under the bed

nope, they were in the belfry, and everyone thought it waz just batz

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:01:57 -0700, GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com>
wrote:


duh. juat quit smoaking crack before ya goto-work...

we must all work hard at making America fit to live in

....and thatz with cutting-edge hardened mil-spec devices

they get the good stuff, and we get all the whored-out Si
garbage that'll only max-out @ 30Ghz. only 10X faster. ew!

so I guess I'll spend the rest of this joke-on-me life waiting
for a scene to render in this goddam VRML stone-knife & bear-
skin technology, while the Colonial Marines are staking their
lives and a bazillion potential alternate realities on that little 1
micron cube that iz their main BCD navigational computer thing

....those realities based on floating-point computationz died

tuff titty, kitty, but life is 4 real and everything (and
everythang) sux rotted goat-pellets thru little strawz

I gotta go take some fucken meds and get away from YOUR nightmare

ttfn, jack

it IZ jack, izznt4.0 it?

Hi =^.^= ,
To " Jack " you say :
" I gotta go take some fucken meds
and get away from YOUR nightmare . "


My only " Meds " are FM radio , This here UselessNet ,

and a whole lot of self hypnosis .

As =^.^= so eloquently gibbered on Tue, 23 Sep 2003 at 07:37 GMT:

While you're out getting properly medicated, perhaps you could look
into finding someone who speaks english to do your writing for you. You
could even go one better and find someone who could /teach/ some
english to you.

did i make dat clear nuf 4 u? we cood find sumbody to spel it out 4 u
if itz 2 hard to git.

HTH

--
"I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply
suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need
an interpreter."

Big discovery??? IBM has been working on this technology for several
years now. They already have that technology in production it's called
the Power4 chip....

"john bailo" <jabailo@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<6a294ac6a7dfb24f66276e30596e6ec1@news.terane ws.com>...

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:33:11 GMT, Sinister Midget
<sinister@kcsmart.spamMEnot.rog> wrote:

fuck that shit. I'm a goddam American

they better have more than welding gear on, for armor. word...

whatever (tm. That Taneth)

I rather petition the lord with prayer, and settle for an angel...

thatz word from direct experience, which iz best

beware. Christianz can be driven stark raving Pagan from this

beats being thrown in jail for not being cool, and fucken someone up

that waz not cool. or the part about me jammin my gut with a nasty
icepick, and egging the onlookers on to make betz on how many
fucking times I could stab myslef before I fell-over and couldn't...

fucking a

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:59:17 -0700, Jeff Relf
<__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> wrote:

gawd. the nitewatch on the electronic frontier karaal perimiter

heh, after the enemy haz been killed, waiting for the ghosts...

fucking boring. I'm turning it over to an integrated solution
application running on a sandboxed dumpster-dive P-200 box

....done already. I love this virtual hindsight shit

Hi =^.^= ,
Of the " Nitewatch " You say :
" I'm turning it over to a ... dumpster-dive P-200 box . "


I think that's what my ISP is using ,

Some PC they rescued from the alley ...

after a big rainstorm .

Hi =^.^= ,
You say :
" Or the part about me jammin my gut with a nasty icepick ,
and egging the onlookers on to make betz on
how many fucking times I could stab myself
before I fell-over and couldn't ... "


Did you really do this ? Were you nuts ?

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:45:03 -0700, Jeff Relf
<__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> wrote:

well, you can serve the net with a 386

the 200 can run ZoneAlarm, a couple of
log analyzer/autoresponderz, and cover
the azz of a VPN by being itz bastion host

....won't surf the net worth a shit, tho

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:49:42 -0700, Jeff Relf
<__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> wrote:

there was a bit of pseudodivine intervention that distracted me

....gotta flash-upgrade and a bootybuttload of new driverz, too

....lemme-tellyah, mental disease is catchy az any STD

I'm allergic to depression, too. hate that

Hi =^.^= ,
You say :
" Well , you can serve the net with a 386 ...
... Won't surf the net worth a shit , tho . "


I find it amazing that a Web server
requires Less power than a web client .

A dial up phone line really limits things anyways .

That's all I'm really paying for : Phone lines .

Hi =^.^= ,
You say :
" Gotta flash-upgrade
and a bootybuttload of new driverz , too . "


That's good .

It sounds like your past was a hair on the wild side .

I mean :
I've heard of acupuncture before ... But icepicks ?

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:20:29 -0700, Jeff Relf
<__.Jeff-Relf@NCPlus.NET> wrote:

try to get something close to ADSL, and set-up
a bastion host ICS box with WinRoute Pro on it

....you'll have a vast list of providers to pick from

I'm using a jacked-up Pentium Pro 200 with 128M

512k L2 which needed a registry tweak to git-going

....it don't run anything like http or nntp services

it just swats the badguys when they slither-up