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From: marksu@laitram.com (Mark Sutton)
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Subject: Re: flat rates for Internet/phone (Re: X on dial-in)
Date: 9 Mar 1995 15:33:50 GMT
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mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd) wrote:

>Mark Sutton (marksu@laitram.com) wrote:
>: I would not expect my car to last very long if I ran the engine at redline
>: continuously.

>Your car is a whole different set of circumstances.  Besides, your engine
>would probably do quite fine running continuously (with periodic 
>maintainence) if you ran it in the RPM that it was designed for, rather
>than at "the red line".

My analogy, where I compared telephone switches to automobiles was
VERY VERY lame, and I am embarrassed.

My analogy in the same post where I compared such switches' capacities to
computer job slots or tasks copacity, however, I stand by.
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