[geeks] Surprised

[dave at cca.org]

vance at ikickass.org writes:

>On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 dave at cca.org wrote:

>> I enjoy explaining to people why I would *never* trade
>> my 25 Mhz POWER RS/6000 for their Ghz PC...

>I don't think these people realize how much faster a 160MHz POWER2SC is
>than an 850MHz Pentium III.  I have both sitting here in front of me, and
>the POWER at SC is *way* faster.

Just try explaining POWER4! :-)

(I do need to get a POWER2 box at some point. That would do wonders
for my postscript render time...)

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