Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Wed Apr 24 23:23:34 2002

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:

SNIP----------------------------------------------
> >
> > You are right about the Flops rating - that was only a bit higher than
> > Macs/PC's and well behind Sparc's, Alphas, etc. But Flops/dollar is not the
> > best metric of a general-purpose computer. If you think it is, buy yourself
> > a used (Sony) PS/2 and we'll all be happier. For many kinds of work,
> > developer time to a working solution is the dominant metric, and NeXT was
> > very near the good end of that scale.
> >
> Did they have Sparcs, Alphas, etc, in '89?


Sparcs, MIPS, but no Alphas...

SNIP-----------------------------------------------

Peter Wallace
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 23:23:34 BST