Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262182AbVERLL4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 07:11:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262191AbVERLL1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 07:11:27 -0400 Received: from alog0170.analogic.com ([208.224.220.185]:7298 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262175AbVERLKh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 07:10:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:10:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Paul Zimmerman cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mrmacman_g4@mac.com Subject: Re: Disk write cache (Was: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1046 Lines: 29 On Wed, 18 May 2005, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > On May 17, 2005, at 21:41:39, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> I've seen some articles recently on a micro-punchcard technology that uses >> grids of thousands of miniature needles and sheets of polymer plastic > > Bwa-ha-ha! That's rich. You should have saved that one for next April > 1st! > Does it use micro-relay logic to drive the micro-punchcard reader? Or > does it have nano-technology vacuum tube logic circuits? > > Good one. > > -Paul Actually carbon nano tubes, vacuum tubes not needed! May need a "filament" transformer, though ^: Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/