<div dir="ltr">Uh...  ...  did you just have a stroke?  Or is EMACS Pinky, Itanium and Bitcoin Cash all related in some way I'm not aware of?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 August 2017 at 10:03, Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rreiter91@gmail.com" target="_blank">rreiter91@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On August 2, 2017 9:17:21 AM EDT, Tim Tisdall <<a href="mailto:tisdall@gmail.com">tisdall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>It's "up to" 8MB.  The first block was about 2MB and the rest have been<br>
>much much smaller:  <a href="https://cash.coin.dance/blocks#blockDetails" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cash.coin.dance/<wbr>blocks#blockDetails</a><br>
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>On 2 August 2017 at 09:11, Russell via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Now ... Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping<br>
>><br>
>> Things just got tougher for little miners.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40800270" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/<wbr>technology-40800270</a><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Russell<br>
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</div></div>Just wait a while. It will take time for EMACS pinky to set in.<br>
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Kitson was recently announced to be the last of Itanium hardware, it looks like the blockchain world is sizing up as a battle of the cuda cores.<br>
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<a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/www.pcworld.com/article/3169623/components-processors/intel-ships-latest-itanium-chip-called-kittson-but-grim-future-looms.amp.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.google.ca/amp/www.<wbr>pcworld.com/article/3169623/<wbr>components-processors/intel-<wbr>ships-latest-itanium-chip-<wbr>called-kittson-but-grim-<wbr>future-looms.amp.html</a><br>
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I wonder if you would call Itanium an EPIC fail or just a bump in the VLIW hiway?<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">--<br>
Russell<br>
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