20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
8:23 p.m.
Thu Dec 20 2007 at 06:55 Dave McGuire wrote:
Well then you'd have the problem of defining
"most powerful". By
many metrics, any VAX is an incredibly powerful system, but the
average
not-so-powerful modern PeeCee will blow its doors off in integer
performance. So how will you define "power"?
-Dave
Good question. Wish I'd asked it myself :)
It could be any number of things. Myself, I'm going to eventually
use it for a "simple" robot rover (more "museum piece"
engineering ... it's a long story; ask me by private e-mail if you
really want to know). Most people would probably do something
different, though.
Here's an idea: a machine powerful enough to serve a simple webpage
with minimal graphics, a page views counter, and, oh, maybe a few
links elsewhere. After all, these days Real Computers are all on the
web, right :)
I am not a web head, but it seems this ought to be doable. Shucks,
if a Commodore 64 can browse web pages, this ought to be relatively
straightforward.
Sort reminds me of a guy I knew in the early '80s who recorded modem
tones and about a page of 1200 baud bulletin board data on his
answering machine outgoing message tape. He said it was to drive the
then new phenomenon of computer hackers crazy....
-Bobby