Sujet : Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 16. Dec 2024, 22:14:47
Autres entêtes
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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.