16 Jul
1998
16 Jul
'98
9:23 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, DOUG PEKSA - COMPG wrote:
I have are similar to the standard but have different
numbers
of dip switches and/or jumpers and 2^20 possible combinations
takes a lot of time when you have to power off the PC every
time. Approx 10 years at 5 minutes an attempt per board -
theoretically I could have all four sussed in 40 years at
24 hours per day :-).
Sounds like a job for transputers :-) I assume you've already tried
posting a query in comp.sys.transputer. It's not very active, but
yesterday a few people were making noise about SGS Thompson T'products.
-- Doug