> <<Why not? A P90 adds 1 P90 CPU year per year (give or take).
> Not everyone
> can afford a PIII/550.>>
>
> I hope they're at least running P166s by now. What's the average
> machine a
> GIMPSter runs, assuming that the average machine runs 24 hours a day? I
> remember it being P181 a while ago, I think.
Of course the last time we got into this (poaching thread) we learned that
there are people out there who insist on running first time LL tests on
P-60's and what not. :-(
> <<By that time (hopefully) the Intel architecture will be dead.>>
>
> I hope it will be alive, just not x86. The Merced, released in 2000, will
> have IA-64 architecture and will _not_ be x86 hardware compatible, only
> software compatible (thru emulation). *drool* Any word on if
> Mr. Woltman
> will be coding a Merced version of Prime95?
If he doesn't, someone will.
> <<Non-US: million 10^6, milliard 10^9, billion 10^12,
> billiard 10^15, trillion 10^18 ...>>
>
> Billiard? Hee hee hee.
Think about it. Billiards = 15 balls (not counting cue)...ahh..it all makes
sense now! :-)
> <<Yep, the fame. It's kinda nice to be in demand from radio, tv &
> press for a
> while.>>
>
> Hee hee hee.
Of course, this all depends on "why" the media is trying to get a hold of
you.
> S. "I want me a Merced!" L.
Hehe...I'm going to the Compaq ASE conference in August and I'm sure Intel
will have their own "you gotta sign this NDA" suite again. With any luck,
they'll have one of their Merced prototypes and I can bug them to death on
the details.
Aaron
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