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- From: renglish@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bob English)
- Subject: Re: Who wants faster machines was DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.175756.24347@cello.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:57:56 GMT
- References: <37206@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs
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- jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- : As I've said before: as soon as you produce more powerful machines,
- : operations that were considered "too expensive" now become required. We
- : software people can absorb just about any likely amount of CPU power and
- : thirst for more...
-
- Put another way:
-
- New software will be written on new hardware, and tuned based its
- performance on new hardware. Those who attempt to run it on old
- hardware will be disappointed.
-
- --bob--
- Not a chess grandmaster.
-