scott wrote:

> But still I find it amazing how I can be in the middle of nowhere in 
> southern Germany, and then just type in my mum's address 1200 km away 
> and in under a minute it tells me exactly which roads to go on to get 
> there and exactly how many km it is.  Surely just knowing every single 
> street name in Europe is quite a lot of data, let alone the routing 
> information plus the road geometry information.

It *is* pretty mental, eh?

Mind you, I saw a guy with an illegal 186 laptop (you know, the ones 
with the blue and purple LCD screens?) that could compute routes around 
the UK given only a few seconds or so. And that was back in 1989. I 

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