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Subject: Re: Floating a battleship in a gallon of water
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:47:33 EST
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> So as you can see, I AM STILL serious about requiring the 100,000 tons of
> water to be there even if it is in a virtual form, or as you put it, not
> "really" there.

Introducing the VIRTUAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM (VTOS).  That's right, now you
can use up all of that idle time on your machine without having to work
night shift.  With VTOS you can increase the throughput of you computer
by as much as 50%!!

Here is how it works:  you think your program is running NOW, but in
reality, it's running in the next idle time slice (probably next week
some time).  But you still get you answers back NOW ...

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