10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
1:24 p.m.
OI but what if you just wanted to play and not run some complicated simulation BY Crikey!
--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at
gmail.com>
Subject: Re: NEC SX-4B on Ebay
To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 9:09 AM
Dave McGuire wrote:
As far as "familiar apps",
though...it's not exactly the type of
equipment you'd want to run Firefox on.
On one hand I suspect the numbers don't make sense in
terms of "familiar app
speed" vs. power required to run the machine. On the
other hand, vintage
computer collectors don't generally run their hardware
for efficiency reasons
anyway :-)
Having said that, running "familiar apps" on a
supercomputer seems a bit like
only ever running console apps on a graphics-laden SGI;
it's only using a
fraction of the machine's capability, which seems a bit
pointless.
cheers
Jules