On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Ben Franchuk wrote:
A: No use several Z80's. They have the same
thermal characteristics as
standard stove elements, in watts per mm^2. The Pentium chips run
hotter internally but ever since the Three Mile Island* meltdown there
as been laws against more than 1 cpu per motherboard.
* The meltdown was from the control computers -- not the reactor! :)
SNL (Saturday Night Live) postulated that Three Mile Island was a case of
Pepsi Syndrome - somebody spilled a Pepsi into one of the control computer
keyboards.
Soon after that, the US and CCCP (USSR) normalized relations enough to
exchange vodka for Pepsi, introducing Pepsi into Russia. Right after that
was Chernobyl.
Apple's ride onto the rocks was with a Pepsi executive at the helm.
Unrelated incidents? maybe