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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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