Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:44:55 -0600 | From | Charles Cazabon <> | Subject | Re: PR draft final-6 comments |
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Kyle Rose <krose@theory.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: [original attribution lost, but assuming Mr. Cahalan] > > > > That is stretching the truth. 386 hardware is not useful with > > any operating system. The performance/watt is way too low. > > That "cheap" 386 DNS server raises your air conditioning costs. > >Okay, you guys are cracking me up. When I can't stop laughing at a comment like > this, I know it's too late.
Me as well. That 600MHz Alpha raises your bills a hell of a lot more; it's dissipating in the neighbourhood of 80 watts, versus half a dozen or so for an 'ancient' x86.
Power consumption is just not an appropriate measure for the usefulness of a processor. Perhaps in MIPS/watt it would be slightly less meaningless. But then the StrongARM used in the NetWinders would win hands down.
Charles -- ---------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <charlesc-linux@qcc.sk.ca> Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ----------------------------------------------------
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