[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

Patrick Giagnocavo rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 13 22:46:06 CDT 2001


On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:51:24PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   *bzzzzt*  Thank you for playing.
> 
>   You've forgotten about the performance of the processor, and the
> number of processors.  A Cray T932/32 can deliver a sustained 64GFLOPS
> of big-testicle 64-bit floating-point power.  You point me to a
> workstation that can do that, and I'll eat cat food in order to buy
> one.

Of course, I left out Step 5 in the McGuire-talks-about-Crays series:

Step 5.  What do you *mean*, Crays don't seem that special to you?  Let me
tell you, sonny, you whippersnapper you, ....

:-)  We all luv ya, Dave don't take it seriously...

./patrick



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