Computer Tolerance (Re: [rescue] Just a thought ...)

[Brian Hechinger]

> But those people look at it and ask "How fast is it?" and when you say
> "40MHz, what does it matter?" They simply laugh and/or mock you. It can be
> quite annoying (at least for me) at times to try and explain things to
> people (esp. being a Computer Science student) to other Computer Science
> students, and get snide remarks like "what do you know, you're running a
> 3MHz system..." or (and this REALLY gets me).. "What good is that Sun
> [E450 Ultra-4]? The benchmarks I just performed on my PeeCee blow it out
> of the water! What a piece of junk!"

i just tell them i've been doing this since before they knew how to spell
computer so maybe they should go away. :)

-brian