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smb at research.att.com
smb at research.att.com
Sun Jun 19 10:39:25 PDT 1994
How about a SCSI device instead. Most UNIX boxes and Macs
nowadays have a few unused SCSI IDs. The great majority of
DOS machines with SCSI (all those new ones with CD-ROMs, etc.)
have unused SCSI IDs. SCSI has the advantage of being rather
fast, and is a cross-platform solution.
``Cross-platform'' is great, but ``fast'' is probably a bad idea.
Few random number generators are particularly fast, and if you sample
the input too rapidly, you're likely to get too high a correlation
between successive bits.
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