20 May
1999
20 May
'99
10:45 a.m.
No, no, you're going about the whole thing wrong. Place them all facing
fordward with shims and duct tape holding them in the right position!
Kevin
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After sifting through the overwritten remaining blocks of Luke's
home directory, Luke and PDP-1 sped away from /u/lars, across the surface
of the Winchester riding Luke's flying read/write head. PDP-1 had Luke stop
at the edge of the cylinder overlooking /usr/spool/uucp.
"Unix-to-Unix Copy Program;" said PDP-1. "You will never find a
more wretched hive of bugs and flamers. We must be cautious."
-- DECWARS
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On Wed, 19 May 1999 Philip.Belben(a)pgen.com wrote:
LLRR definitely wouldn't work. But LRLR will still tend to stray from the
vertical because the sloping tops all slope the same way. That is why I
suggested LRRL. This zigzag reverses the sideways displacement that occurs in
each pair of layers, thus rising vertically and being therefore more stable than
LRLR.
Philip.
> The way to build a wall is to stack them not
all the same way round. The
most
> stable method is probably LRRLLRRLL..., but
LRLRLR would probably work (L and
R
meaning
Macs facing Left and Right respectively)
LLRR wouldn't work. You'd have an unstable zigzag. LRLR is far more
optimal.