Defining "OBSOLETE" (Was: gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Oct 26 18:54:37 1999

"OBSOLETE"
"You rang?"

I don't see any reason why my computing hardware needs to be much less
obsolete than I am.


> >It doesn't matter how many lanes you have on a single motorway, or how fast
> >your car is, when you have a lot of traffic on the road you still get traffic
> >jams and major bottlenecks at junctions and on/off ramps....
> This analogy is flawed, I'm afraid.
> Another analogy might be:
> I have a Racecar, a family car, a truck, and a bicycle. (Roughly SBI,
> CI Bus, MASSBUS, and UNIBUS).
> But if I had all Racecars......


Ah, the ubiquitous obligatory automotive analogy.

OB_AutoAnalogy: Which is faster? A "Land-Speed-Record" contender? Or a
Formula I car?
Now enter them both in the Baja 500. Two DNFs. The same drivers would
have better odds of completion with a stock enonobox.

Which is faster? A Porsche Boxster or a '38 GMC schoolbus?
Ferrying a few dozen people to and from the airport at rush hour?
OB_CC: Moving a VAX?

Perhaps as a more appropriate measure of automotive speed, we could use
the time that it takes to move 8 Vaxen 200 Kilometers.


EVERY computer is the fastest. You just need to figure out which task it
is the fastest at.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 18:54:37 BST

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