26 Oct
1999
26 Oct
'99
2:54 p.m.
"OBSOLETE"
"You rang?"
I don't see any reason why my computing hardware needs to be much less
obsolete than I am.
Ah, the ubiquitous obligatory automotive analogy.
OB_AutoAnalogy: Which is faster? A "Land-Speed-Record" contender? Or a
Formula I car?
Now enter them both in the Baja 500. Two DNFs. The same drivers would
have better odds of completion with a stock enonobox.
Which is faster? A Porsche Boxster or a '38 GMC schoolbus?
Ferrying a few dozen people to and from the airport at rush hour?
OB_CC: Moving a VAX?
Perhaps as a more appropriate measure of automotive speed, we could use
the time that it takes to move 8 Vaxen 200 Kilometers.
EVERY computer is the fastest. You just need to figure out which task it
is the fastest at.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
It doesn't
matter how many lanes you have on a single motorway, or how fast
your car is, when you have a lot of traffic on the road you still get traffic
jams and major bottlenecks at junctions and on/off ramps....
This analogy is
flawed, I'm afraid.
Another analogy might be:
I have a Racecar, a family car, a truck, and a bicycle. (Roughly SBI,
CI Bus, MASSBUS, and UNIBUS).
But if I had all Racecars......