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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Superscalar vs. multiple CPUs ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.200326.20530@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:03:26 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
- References: <1992Dec7.012026.11482@athena.mit.edu> <PCG.92Dec11162630@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.134531.3253@athena.mit.edu>,<PCG.92Dec23144916@decb.aber.ac.uk>
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- In article <PCG.92Dec23144916@decb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
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- >How innocent! I use both GNU Emacs and Microsoft Word, and they are both
- >inconsiderate eaters of CPU time,
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- GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor.
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- At least you don't need LISP for Word; I assume Word for Windows? I use it
- when I need a really pretty document, but damned if I don't stick to
- Word Perfect for DOS for my casual writing, cuz of the screen display.
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- I suppose if I bought a SVGA board with an accelerator on it, I'd be happy.
- Until I realized how dinky my screen is at home when compared to the 17"
- monitors here at work.
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- > not to mention TeX. The latter eats up
- >about 10 million instructions per page. As editors and word processors
- >become more powerful, feature laden, and sport ever greater degrees of
- >multimediality, the are going to suck up CPU even more.
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- So we'll be able to put sound in documents. Rah..
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- Most of the world has problems getting an ASCII text message correct and
- software companies now want to throw in full motion video?!?! Ack-pttthpft.
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- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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