25 Jan
2002
25 Jan
'02
9:55 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
You're not gonna impress anyone on this list with
that candy-pants
quiche-eating system. You can start to get our attention by get a
computer that weighs more than you. Or barring that, we'll respect
you more if your system doesn't have floating point instructions,
or an integer divide, or even an integer multiply.
You mean like a 'cheap model' IBM System 360. The cheaper ones were
rumored to handle multiply operations in software (ick!). Interesting,
but not something I would really want to do payroll for a large company
with - with it taking about a week to figure out all the different tax
percentages (especially today..)
-- Pat