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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <5821.2a701c60@hayes.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:06:08 GMT
- References: <D2150035.7sh4j4@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <ajross.711133468@husc9> <1992Jul15.115921.14033@msc.cornell.edu> <ajross.711328520@husc9> <5794.2a6ac834@hayes.com> <92203.173612ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <5805.2a6d64c8@hayes.com> <92205.170150ASI509@DJUKfa11.bitnet>
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- In article <92205.170150ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>, ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
- > In article <5805.2a6d64c8@hayes.com>, bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) says:
- >>You mean five times faster for some reasonably contrived example. WHO CARES??!
- >
- > I DO !
-
- Perhaps you have an application that makes speed matter. There are applications
- where speed matters. However, I believe you entirely missed my point. See
- following...:
-
- >>What is the senseless obsession with speed? Why are MIPS more important
- >>than usability? Do you buy a car by looking under the hood for a 600 HP
- >>engine? Sheesh!
- >>
- > We have a simulation program here at work that typically runs for about 2h
- > for one simulation on a 33MHz 486. I don`t want to try it on a IIsi.
-
- You never know. It might do quite well on a IIsi. Perhaps there's a better
- simulation program available for the Mac.
-
- Maybe what you are doing is too computationally involved for a desktop
- computer. Maybe what you really need is a Cray or perhaps just a few
- Transputers.
-
- >>If, tommorrow, I dropped on your desk an infinitely fast DOS machine, you'd
- >>perhaps be 5% more productive with it. If that.
- >
- > There are other simulation runs that would take about 2 years to complete.
- > If youve have that infinitely fast DOS machine we wouldn`t need our CRAY.
-
- My point is that the overwhelming majority of personal computer users don't
- need speed. They think they want it. It is like the 600 HP engine in a
- car. It is relatively easy to measure speed, so people want more, thinking
- it will make them able to do more. Actually, speed has little relevance
- to the utility of a personal computer.
-
- Obviously, for certain types of numerical computations on a mass scale,
- you need speed. NOAA would want a dozen of my hypothetical infinitely
- fast computers. My contention is that the majority of personal computer
- users DO NOT fall into this category.
-
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