[rescue] those who should be shot

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri Mar 1 13:04:04 CST 2002


> I thought it was a funny intentional mis-interpretation of the original
> posting.  Kinda like a PC user saying that a beautiful Tyan Mobo should be put
> in a POS SGI case.  Of course, a red neck should prefer the superior bone
> grinding torq that an SGI puts out (metaphorically speaking of course) compared
> to the riced out high RPM (err Mhz) Intel machines (and AMDs also).
> 
> I kinda like that analogy.  An SGI is somewhere between a big block chrysler
> muscle car and a Mack truck, and a PC is a Sentra with a heavily modified
> stock 4-banger engine, fancy air filters and exhaust, suspesion, etc.  Maybe
> higher end PCs are like... Like an old Lotus?  That just doesn't sound right
> though...  Oh, I picked lotus because they used to be 4 cyl engineers in the
> espirit.
> 

I like this analogy - being a car-geek too, this made me smile.

Kurt



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