On 05/29/2014 10:09 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 28 May 2014 20:31, "David Collier-Brown" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > A niggle: people working in queuing theory* make the simplifying > > assumption that queues don't drop. When describing the real world, they > > talk of "defections", the scenario where a human arrives at the tail of > > the queue and "defects", either to another queue or to the exit door of > > the store! > > I think my description of the black box is still valid: a "defection" > must imply a second output from the box, otherwise it will appear as > either a reordering (preserving the property) or a discard. > > - Jonathan Morton > Yes, I entirely agree: your black box is slightly larger than the usual queuing box... which make your box think "outside the box" (;-))
--dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest [email protected] | -- Mark Twain
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