Kevin McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> If a 4.7GHz machine is 1000 times more powerful than a
> 4.77Mhz machine, why don't things go 1000 times faster?
> 
> Memory has increased even more, and storage devices too...

Check out changes in memory *speeds*, do the math(s), and
weep.  (Modern machines mostly sit around doing nothing,
even when "busy".)

Will

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