Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 20/12/2024 09:38, D wrote:

  On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:07:53 +0100, D wrote:
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Train stations are for nerds! Real men jump from a moving car to the
moving train!

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Most of the trains that come through here are coal cars. Not the best of
accommodations. We do have two passenger stations that are being used for
other purposes. Apparently 'if you build it they'll come' doesn't apply to
trains.
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 All it takes is patience. Just wait and see! ;)

In all cases the optimal solution is context dependent
People in the major cities travel between those majors cities as fast as possible, and that means by air, because its relatively cheap and super fast.
People in the flyover states are there because they have no interest in being anywhere than where they are. And they have cars and of course trucks, which are good enough for the long and arbitrary journeys they make.
Trains are only really suitable for freight and bulk carrying in the USA these days...
....But if carbon based fuel gets expensive enough electric trains will become potentially the fast and cheap option.
You may even drive your BEV onto  one and get a free charge with the train ticket
Train top speeds are easily 200mph, and planes at 500mph or a bit more er not that much faster when the boarding process is taken into account. Trains have doors all along them :-)
15 hours coast to coast on a fast electric train with dining facilities, wi fi and USB charger plugs and even a bunk, might be seen as preferable to a redeye 6 hour flight
Of course what happens if it snows, is another matter.
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