Computer collecting humor.

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Sat Nov 8 19:57:49 1997

Allison J Parent wrote:

> That was 64bits of internal storage and that is different from a 64bit
> parallel CPU. Also 613khz is slow.

Not that slow. Depends what you do with the clock. Remember that a
Motorola 6809 running at .8 Mhz (800 Khz) could always beat an Intel
8088 running at 4.77 Mhz by at least 25% and usually 50% in tests I
used.

-- 
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the
entrails 
of the last priest."  [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]

Received on Sat Nov 08 1997 - 19:57:49 GMT