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In article <33d0b697...@news.dacom.co.kr>,
*maSApo* <mas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Jul 1997 02:01:38 +0100, gd <ger...@vemaz.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <jo-140797...@homer.kaz.ripco.net>, jo <j...@jomama.edu>
>>writes
>>>9200 Pentium Pro 200MHz processors.  It has a performance of 1.34tflops
>>>> > (1340mflops, or 1.34 trillion floating point operations per second).
>>
>>WOW !!! and quarke on it what is like ? ;-)
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>
>what the hell is a 9200 Pentium Pro?
>200 Mhz? isn't that a bit slow?
>
>They already have 266 Pentium II's which is the follow-up to the old
>Pentium Pros.
>
>I don't know much about megaflops, but a regular Pentium Pro 200 Mhz
>isn't THAT fast.
>
>I would think the world's fastest computer would be a mainframe
>computer that took up an entire building costing millions of dollars
>to make.  

That machine is a gigantic machine, it does take up a huge amount of space
and it certainly costs millions of dollars.  And I doubt the designers
zip off to fry's and upgrade their 9,200 pentium pro processors.  This machine
is not a PC, it's a multi-processor supercomputer and it just happens to
use PPros.  I don't see Intel using UltraSPARCs or MIPS chips in their
supercomputer for some reason.  I wonder why.

>Wouldn't it be great to own a 20,000 dollar SGI workstation?

Well, I'm typing this on a 20,000 dollar Sun workstation, is that close
enough ?

-Eric
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