28 May
2010
28 May
'10
11:35 a.m.
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:36:51 -0600
From: bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
To:
Subject: Re: Anyone off to VCF-UK
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I read also that Werner Von Braun scaled the V-2 to the railroad and tunnel clearance
available.
Did Microsoft scale Windows to the available memory?
Cause 640K is all anybody will ever need...
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On 28 May 2010 at 11:46, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Remember the rail cars are wider. I think the rail road width was from
the width of the ruts from roman roads in England. How ever since rail
roads started out hauling freight rather than people, you tended to have
a narrow width to save on road bed costs as you ran from the mines to
the industrial cities.
Yes. 4'8.5". "Standard
gauge".
In any case, not a nice clean number in either system (143.5 cm)--
although the Russians and Finns use something that is very close to 5
ft. --Chuck