mst@csun.UUCP (Mike Temkin) (07/27/88)
A friend gave me the following that was taken off a dial-up board
run by DECUS.
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I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 23-Jun-1988 12:08pm EST
From: Marc Lippmann
LIPPMANN
Dept: Symp Committee
Tel No: (Omitted)
To: See Below
Subject: VMS V5.0 interesting facts
Some Interesting VMS V5.0 Statistics
These statistics were provided to us from a friend in SDC.
Q. What is gray and weighs 2550 tons?
A. 638 Elephants, or the VMS V5.0 relase.
Q. What covers 102 football fields?
A. 4,590,000 square feet of Astro-Turf, or the Vinyl used to cover the
VMS V5.0 documentation binders.
Q. If a golfer plays one round of golf each week of the year, and then
plays one additional round, (without a cart), how many miles does that
golfer walk?
A. 185 miles, or the distance covered by all the VMS V5.0 binders placed
end-to-end.
Q. How much high-quality toilet tissue does it take to circle the equator?
A. 989,571 rolls, or the paper from the VMS V5.0 release.
Facts about the VMS V5.0 release:
The initial distribution will be 30,000 kits.
There will be 34 binders per kit, or a total of 1,020,000 binders.
At 6000 binders per trailer, that is 170 truckloads.
The total documentation set will use 6,600,000 pounds of paper.
At 80,000 pounds per trailer, that is almost 83 truckloads.
To make 6,600,000 pounds of paper requires 6,600 cords of wood, enough
to heat an average home for 825 years, or a town of 2,500 for a year.
At 60 feet per trailer, the 253 (170+83) trailers required will stretch 4.8
miles.
A single system-level VAX/VMS V5.0 distribution kit will:
be packed in 10 boxes,
weigh 170 pounds,
consist of 34 binders,
contain over 20,000 pages (or one 4 inch CD-rom disk),
take 2-3 days to deliver via UPS, and
be available on 11 different computer media.
Digital Has it Now.
Marc
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Mike Temkin
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