Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 16 Dec 2024 21:14:47 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <947j2lx3qf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <24ffec92-9486-251d-7a42-d376b88b2c9b@example.net> <20241209135847.00004fb7@gmail.com> <9639150c-d17c-bb50-a5f4-20ff82e00513@example.net> <4b3cb76c-7e84-4357-026f-61375788e6f2@example.net> <20241213083212.000050d0@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net UYQabyUjGA8cKSG+UNOe8gDWTvj/ygK5vztc+LRSrUEC3G8X01 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4JF5+jtXoL9xg7ZWwcz+WECgYj4= sha256:pgnt/0aY/tgwqSYOkQXu5xattfD/IfCcLx/i2VlchHI= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2245 On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:34:24 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > Very true that they "over-built" in the 1800s. Fails were usually due > to some unrealized design fault, not the overall-average strength of > the structure. Building on old swamp-land was a common error. One of the first things we were exposed to in the engineering curriculum was the Tacoma Narrows bridge as how not to do things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) Moisseiff was a product of the Baltic Polytechnic Institute and Columbia University, not RPI, fortunately.