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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 21:05:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:29:04 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I would differentiate between the "programmer's K" and the "salesman's
> K".

There was no such distinction. Consider an Ethernet channel at 10 Mbits 
per second; how many seconds would it take to transmit a 10 Mbyte file 
over that?