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From: cowan@ccil.org (cowan@ccil.org)
Subject: [TUHS] mkfs somewhere else?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:50:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2c53cba0affff2f8d00de6bf7797cec.squirrel@www.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1502130222030.3148@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Dave Horsfall:

> Not just that, but the aerodynamics have been screwed up.  The heads will
> no longer "float" on an air-cushion; I believe the gap is the traditional
> human hair width, if that.

Much larger.  I remember seeing a scale drawing that showed the gap
as half an inch or so, with a dust particle the size of a freaking
mountain and a human hair that looked like a Tipler cylinder.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders.  --Hal Abelson






  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-08 20:10 Norman Wilson
2015-02-12 15:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-12 15:50   ` cowan [this message]
2015-02-12 19:18     ` random832
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-02-08 20:20 Norman Wilson
2015-02-08 20:12 Norman Wilson
2015-02-08  6:22 Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08  6:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-08  7:03   ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08  7:15     ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-02-08 17:34       ` Dave Horsfall
2015-02-08 18:52         ` Jacob Ritorto

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