[rescue] pursuing a VAX

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Dec 9 14:53:59 CST 2002


On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:47:06PM -0600, Eric Dittman wrote:
> 
> At least, they shouldn't.  I've heard Wintel-worshippers say
> things like, "I've got a dual 1GHz Pentium III system, so it's
> twice as fast as a 1GHZ Pentium III!" which isn't close to the
> truth.  You can't correct them, either.

I've also heard, I've got a dual 1 gig P3, which is just as fast as your
2gig P4, in which case, they might be right for many applications.  P4s
suck.  The P4 Xeons don't even seem all that fast.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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