Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Floating a battleship in a gallon of water Message-ID: <18278@lanl.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:47:33 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.18278 Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:47:33 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 01:23:46 EST References: <27@daisy.UUCP> <6235@mcvax.UUCP> <1301@hao.UUCP> <6258@mcvax.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Distribution: net Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 18 > 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 ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so - Louis Pastuer James Giles