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

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat May 4 14:20:24 2002

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Speaking of which, the Zuse factor formula was officially proposed today
> > at VCF Europa 3.0. I've created a PHP script that computes your
>
> [...]
>
> > If you don't like the formula, blame Hans, but it does seem to work for
> > the most part.
>
> And what is the formula you finally decided on?

Ok, in the interest of sparking discussion and to fine tune the formula,
it's:

Awp

---
BI
A = Area in square meters
w = Weight in kilograms
p = Power in Watts
B = Total storage bits (i.e. total K-bytes * 8 or total M-bytes * 1024 * 8)
I = Instructions per Second
We calculated the Zuse 1 and the Zuse factor came out to something like
200.
Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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