20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
8:29 a.m.
On Thursday 20 December 2007 07:55, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:30 AM, Robert Nansel wrote:
The "power" of a machine tends to directly relate to the Watts of power
it consumes from an AC supply. :)
Pat
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Anybody up for a contest to see who can design
the most powerful
general-purpose digital computer given these constraints? I guess
we'd have to figure out what "powerful" means in this context,
given that it's likely never to exceed a few KIPS.
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