[Info-vax] [OT] Moore's Law dead within a decade

[AEF]

On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 9:09:44 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-10-02 14:44:
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> > In article <l2h0re$v3b$1 at news.albasani.net>,
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> > 	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
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> >> Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-10-02 13:24:
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> >>> In article <524bdd63$0$50682$c3e8da3$92d0a893 at news.astraweb.com>,
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> >>> 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
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> >>>> On 13-10-02 04:33, invalid wrote:
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> >>>>
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> >>>>>>>>>> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>> Can somebody translate this into English please?
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> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>> It's a Nagra,  it is Swiss, and very very precise.
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> >>>>
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> >>>> I had to ask my friend Mr Google and he pointed me to a french page of
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> >>>> Wikipedia.  nagra is polish for "it will record". It was apparently the
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> >>>> first portable magnetic tape recorder and made in Switzerland started in
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> >>>> 1950.
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> >>>>
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> >>>> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagra
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> >>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>> There is also:
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> >>>>
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> >>>> http://www.nagra.ch
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> >>>> Nagra stands for «National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive
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> >>>> Waste».
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> >>>>
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> >>>
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> >>> Knowing what the Swiss are famous for (other than chocolate) I always
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> >>> assumed "Nagra" was a wristwatch company, like Rolex.  And this was
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> >>> some kind of advertising blurb.  You know, like "Nothing sucks like
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> >>> a VAX!"  :-)
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> >>>
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> >>> bill
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>
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> >> An english speeking Wikipeda page:
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> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagra
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> >>
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> >> "Nagra-brand tape recorders were the de facto standard sound
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> >> recording systems for motion picture and single-camera
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> >> television production from the 1960s until the 1990s."
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> >
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> > No doubt, but what exactly does "precise" mean in the case of a
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> > tape recorder?  Terms like "fidelity" are usually used for describing
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> > the accuracy of sound recording.  Clocks, on the other hand, use
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> > "precise" and the Swiss have always been proud of their clock/watch
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> > making industry.
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> >
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> > Just another curious speculation.
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> >
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> > bill
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> The Nagra tape recorders are the "Swiss clocks" amongst
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> (portable) tape recorders.

I would guess that precise in the case of a tape recorder would be either running at the correct speed; or running with extremely small time-varying changes in speed, which create "wow and flutter", which degrades the accuracy of a sound recording; or both.

AEF