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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:32:10 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Machines are getting too damn fast
Message-ID:  <97vtfq$14al$3@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <200103040934.f249YHi27877@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> wrote:

[Matt raves about some high-end PC box]
>     I'm tring to imagine 1.3 GHz.  That's over a billion instructions
>     a second.  And in a few years with the new chip fab lithography
>     standards it's going to be 10 GHz.
> 
>     We need to find something more interesting then buildworlds to do on
>     these machines.

I'm having flashbacks to those reviews of 386DX-25 boxes when they
became first available.

(And I could go back further in time, but this would be increasingly
silly.)

((I'm feeling old.))

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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