Re: Platform Support vs. Business Support

From: Keith Cayemberg (keith.cayemberg_at_arcor.de)
Date: 07/24/05 

Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:12:23 +0200

JF Mezei wrote:
> Dave Froble wrote:
>
>>it. There's 2 jet engines on my back porch, and I'm putting them on a
>>50 MPH Ultralight aircraft this afternoon. Not only have I joined
>>'them', but now I'm leading them. But at least I'll have some fun.
>
>
>
> Since your ultralight isn't very aerodynamic, make sure your jet engines are
> overpowered to compensate. I hope you got at least 2 GE90s jet engines for
> your ultralight :-) :-) Oh, and be careful when you start your engines to
> make sure the exhaust isn't aimed at your house ...
>
>
> (For those who don't know, the GE90 is the engine used in the 777 aircraft,
> with the nacelles almost as wide as the fuselage of a 737 :-) It generates
> over 90,000 pounds of thrust in its early vintage and has been uprated since
> (I thing it now does 115,000)
>

Na, a transonic turbofan developed using OpenVMS would be more
appropriate. How about the Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 used in the F/22A
at 35,000 pounds of thrust? :-)
http://www.adaic.org/atwork/pw.html
http://www.pratt-whitney.com/prod_mil_f119.asp

>
> Often, folks who go from a real platform to Windows will compensate with much
> more hardware to compensate for the inefficiency of windows, lack of
> clustering etc etc. And because the hardware is relatively cheap, it is easy
> to justify, especially when you realise you need more horsepower well into a
> project and nobody wants to admit it was a mistake to go windows for that
> project, so they just pour more hardware to compensate for the problem.

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