10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
11:22 p.m.
John Allain wrote:
I think your understanding of operating systems and PC architecture is
flawed. It sounds like typical knee-jerk MS bashing.
--jc
That is exactly
why I *still* run critical or security-sensitive
stuff on such platforms. It leaves those kiddies with a severe
headache. :)
At last! A motivation behind all this. I was beginning to wonder.
I saw a digital animation festival last night and was thinking of
getting a new compute server. By my calculations a midsized
PC passed even the CRAY-1 in compute speed sometime in 2002,
give or take a year. It probably would require a stripped down O/S
to do the computing. MS must take out at least 3/4 of the machine
power.
John A.