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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (25611)	1/3/2000 6:53:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Be the first on YOUR block to accurately predict the weather. <g> Funny you should mention this since my first paid position in computing in 66 was as part of the symbol manipulation group for the not-yet-born Illiac IV, a 4x64 processor machine and one of the projects of that group was simulating the world for the purpose of weather prediction. But, you know, even after there was a real machine to run it on, there are just too many missing data points given the amount of the globe that is covered by ocean and the importance of data from above the surface. More to the point, perhaps, was another project of that same group ... code breaking! How many current encryption standards will stand up to 1000 processor cracking systems?