Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:30:36 +0100, D wrote:
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Interesting! There might be a train ride on my next trip to the US. The
wife seems to be more and more interested in it, since neither of us
enjoys driving. Let's see what we decide upon. I suspect we might
actually go in late 2025.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela
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The Northeast Corridor and southern California are the best bets. Outside
of that you're rolling the dice.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak#/media/
File:Amtrak_network_map_2016.svg

Let's see! She has become fascinated with train videos now. There's this crescent railway from New orleans to hmm... was it new york (?)... I think that's one she had in mind.

Theoretically Amtrak trains have priority over freight trains. In practice
freight pays the bills and Amtrak is a federally subsidized money sink. It
makes sense in the northeast. when I worked in Boston I sometimes had to
go to New York City. By the time you get to Logan, jump through the hoops,
land at JFK, and take ground transportation into the city, 4 hours from
downtown Boston to downtown NY looks good. The company's travel people
didn't think that way. 'It's only an hour and a half flight.'

I usually do the same if I need to go to Gothenburg. Since there's a city airport in Stockholm, you could get there a bit faster with plane, but the difference was quite small. Now they are closing the city airport, which means I would lose 2 hours going to the international one, so the train would make much more sense. Especially since I can walk around and work all the way. The only danger is autumn and winter when the trains are completely unpredictable, but spring and summer works fairly ok.