From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 4:35:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E9037B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 04:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 14ZuCq-0003qI-00; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:35:16 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f25BWBV38550 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:32:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Machines are getting too damn fast Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <97vtfq$14al$3@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200103040934.f249YHi27877@earth.backplane.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Dillon 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