[geeks] recieved from a co-worker

[Dave McGuire]

On February 11, Big Endian wrote:
> >A single GeForce4 chip sports more floating point calculation ability
> >than
> >existed on the entire planet in 1985.
> 
> This is possible but not a great feat I would think.

  Well the Cray-2 shipped in 1985 at 488MFLOPS/proc.  There were a *lot*
of serious supercomputers around in 1985.  It's quite a feat.

  That "more than existed on the entire planet" statement is complete
bullshit, no doubt designed to impress PeeCee game weenies.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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