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*maSApo* <mas...@hotmail.com> wrote in article
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> 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).

 
> what the hell is a 9200 Pentium Pro?

He was talking about 9200 Pentium Pros in a single computer.

> 200 Mhz? isn't that a bit slow?

Not when there's 9200 of them working together.

> 
> 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.

Compared with what? It's a bit faster than my P150.

> 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.  

Yup, see above.

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

Hell yeah, but I really wouldn't have much need for it. If I had that much
money lying around, I'd buy a Pentium II 266, and with the other 17500, I'd
like, uh, buy a bunch of games or something.