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From: Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Clever code
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:02:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516e29ac-ae8f-e210-a277-82e285aa52c1@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiU=2Au8c=pB-pk0dim-yXHEhEDM6o2dvCyEaNCNQrktAw@mail.gmail.com>

Douglas McIlroy [13/12/2022 16.10]:

> A delay line is logically like a drum, with circulating data that is
> accessible only at one point on the circle. A delay line was
> effectively a linear channel along which a train of data pulses was
> sent. Pulses received at the far end were reshaped electronically. and
> reinjected at the sending end. One kind of delay line was a mercury
> column that carried acoustic pulses.

And according to Alan Turing, it might have been implemented with Gin 
and Tonic.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-13  3:30 Rudi Blom
2022-12-13  3:41 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-13  3:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-13  4:03   ` George Michaelson
2022-12-13  8:05     ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13  9:45       ` Dagobert Michelsen
2022-12-13  7:47   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 19:56     ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-13 11:46   ` John P. Linderman
2022-12-13 14:07     ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-13 14:31       ` arnold
2022-12-13 14:48         ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 15:10         ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-13 15:34           ` Stuff Received
2022-12-13 15:56             ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 23:02           ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2022-12-14  7:31           ` arnold
2022-12-15 18:06           ` Marc Donner
2022-12-15 18:08             ` Marc Donner
2022-12-15  6:30         ` [TUHS] Delay line memory (was: Clever code) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-12-13 15:52 ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code Bakul Shah
2022-12-13 16:14   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-13 16:30     ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15  6:39   ` [TUHS] Sector interleaving (was: Clever code) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-13 18:02 [TUHS] Re: Clever code Noel Chiappa
2022-12-13 17:58 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-13 18:51 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-13 20:14   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-13 20:58     ` Warren Toomey via TUHS
2022-12-14  2:28     ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-11 20:03 [TUHS] Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Larry McVoy
2022-12-12  2:15 ` [TUHS] Clever code (was " Bakul Shah
2022-12-12  9:48   ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling

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