Re: Mersenne: Thoughts on Merced / IA-64

[Anonymous]

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:11:09PM -0400, Jud McCranie wrote:
>The IA-64 sounds like a monster.  I'll want one, but they'll probably be too
>expensive for a few years.  (It happens over and over - "no person will need
>that much on their desktop.")

In the case of the 386, there was "no person will need that at all" :-)
That's why FRACTINT (a DOS fractal program, also ported to Windows, Linux/Unix,
and I believe some other platforms too) introduced arbitrary precision zooming:
To keep processors busy in the days where they could look back at `Grandpa's
days where they *only* had Pentium processors'.

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