From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49ECAE5E.6070200@proweb.co.uk> References: <3e1162e60904190826w1ff0d7e5ua5456981be9719cc@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920904200758m1a1a96den579673e107b57b19@mail.gmail.com> <49ECAE5E.6070200@proweb.co.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:15:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130904201115w74ef55a5y5cac01c7b8987acf@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb329786-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > What kind of latency? > > For speed of light in fibre optic 30ms is about 8000km (New York to San > Francisco and back) Assuming you have a direct fiber connection with no routers in between. I would say that is somewhat rare.