[rescue] those who should be shot

[Brent B. Powers]

>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Huhn <kurt at k-huhn.com> writes:

    >> 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.
    >> 

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

Oh, awful. That esprit, depending on which generation, put 240 HP out
of those 4 cylinders. No, I think you've got the analogy
reversed. PC's are like 60's muscle cars... god awful fast, no
elegance to the engineering, and hard as hell to control in the
corners.

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