12 Oct
2008
12 Oct
'08
2:16 p.m.
On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Perhaps, but this is hardly a "vintage computer".
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.
Completely.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL