[181543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Jun 27 12:19:10 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:35:40 -0500."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:18:58 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:35:40 -0500, mikea said:
> And just possibly for more than seven computers on the continent.
Note that there's scant evidence that Thomas Watson actually said it - and more
evidence that others said something similar. Also, given that during that
timeframe there was already more than 5 or 7 computers in existence, there's
reason to think that what was being discussed (no matter who it was) was
similar to what we now call a "supercomputer" - take a look at the Top 10
systems in the Top500 list, and there's always just 5-10 beasts that are an
order of magnitude faster than the huge pile from slots 11 to 100....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote
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