[geeks] Surprised

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:

> >Looks nice though.  Tempting.
> >Then today I was in BJ's (great name huh?),
> >a "warehouse" type store and got into a conversation
> >with someone looking at the laptops. He asked me what I
> >used.  Well, a 333 MHz Ultra 10 and a Sparc 20 with Ross
> >dual 125 MHz was quite a ways beyond his understanding
> >as was UNIX.  He wandered away muttering about "idiots
> >using less than 1 GHz".  Can't win them all....  ;->
>
> I enjoy explaining to people why I would *never* trade
> my 25 Mhz POWER RS/6000 for their Ghz PC...

I don't think these people realize how much faster a 160MHz POWER2SC is
than an 850MHz Pentium III.  I have both sitting here in front of me, and
the POWER at SC is *way* faster.

Peace...  Sridhar