On 29/04/2010 10:01 PM, Invisible wrote:

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> rate!
>
> On the other hand, if it takes 4 days to arrive, I just halved the
> transfer rate. And the latency is, of course, abysmal...
>
>
>
> I found the following quote on Wikipedia:
>
> "The theoretical capacity of a Boeing 747 filled with Blu-Ray discs is
> 595,520,000 Gigabits, resulting in a 37,034.826 Gb/s flight from New
> York to Los Angeles."
>
> Somebody bothered to compute this?!? o_O

Or as a uni lecturer said to my data comms class (circa mid 1980's):

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a ute full of tapes speeding down 
the highway"

At the time we were learning about synchronous protocols operating over 
1200bps links.

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