17 Apr
2013
17 Apr
'13
7:04 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
So, what DOS machine would handle processing, say, a
few hundreds of
millions of transactions during a twenty-hour batch window? ;)
So long as each transaction can be handled in a few hundred clock cycles
(including all overhead), then a 5150 would be marginally adequate.
(~41,212,800,000 clock cycles per day)
That does not leave enough overhead to support Windoze with dancing
kangaroos and yodelling jellyfish.
Are the bugs out of the corn popper?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com