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- From: hill@spot.Colorado.EDU (Michael Hill)
- Subject: Re: Falcon??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.234817.23066@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:48:17 GMT
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- James Hague writes:
- >I find that most processors have a whole lot more speed than I'll
- >ever need, and I'm talking about "slow" things like the 80286 and
- >68000. A 16 MHz 68030 may not be the current state of the art, but
- >it isn't exactly a slouch either (and that's a severe understatement).
- >It is looked upon as underpowered, though, because it is common in
- >the MS-DOS world to throw around all sorts of meaningless statistics
- >and impressive sounding numbers.
-
- I go by MIPS, myself. (Still looking for somebody to buy me a Sun
- SPARC 10 w/four parallel processors - 400 MIPS total!! :^) )
-
- --Michael
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- Michael Hill <>< Isaiah 9:6 | "Go, go into the world and tell all of
- hill@spot.Colorado.EDU | creation He lives, lives in the hearts of men
- | He said go, go into the world and tell all of
- University of Colorado@Boulder | creation He lives, lives in the hearts of men
- $ mv net.flames /dev/null | He's the Messiah" --Bloodgood, "The Messiah"
- -------------------------My boss is a Jewish carpenter!------------------------
- Did you ever notice that everybody in favor of abortion has already been born?!
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