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From: smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson)
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Subject: Re: This is serious!
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 16:54:32 EDT
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> In article <2264@amdcad.UUCP> bcase@amdcad.UUCP (Brian case) writes:
> >
> >Following is an excerpt from an old Apple user's group newsletter
> >			POTENTIAL PROBLEM
> >			by Jerry W. Fewel
> >  ...explains computer inertia...
> 
>    Of *course* it's serious.  In fact, some super-computers have to be mounted
> on a special track, with  springs, coils, etc., in order to bring the machine 
> ... explanation of supercompters and slow computers ...

This area of research brought to mind another potential problem.  Let's say
that NASA comes up with a spacecraft which can travel at or near the speed of
light.  Do its on-board computers get slower and slower as the magical velocity
is approached?
-- 

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