Fedora Core 2 - review.

T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jun 5 19:38:48 UTC 2004


On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:54:32AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> Reminds me of an old joke.
> 
> Cray Computers (big super computer manufacturer) builds a computer the
> size of wrist watch with 100GB memory, 1 terabyte of disk storage,
> running multiple processors at 100GHz each, and able to produce and sell
> them for $1000 a piece.  

Cray did build such a machine in 1984.

The problem was that the powersupply was the size of an aircraft
carier and cost 48 billion euros. Then there was the cooling tower...

> What is the first question everyone asks?  "Does it run Windows?"

It would have, but when compiled the compiler eliminated WindowZ as a loop
with unused output.


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