"John R Pierce" wrote:
> a year on one of these [a vax] wouldn't equal one day on a pentium-II.
Probably a bit generous there even, given that older vaxen wouldn't
have pipelined FPU's so you might get one result every 10 (or perhaps
even 100) clocks, as opposed to one result almost every clock on modern
hardware.
Simon.
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