Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 00:21:54 08/20/03
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On August 19, 2003 at 13:40:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >On August 19, 2003 at 10:29:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 18, 2003 at 12:08:35, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip, CT next] >>>Less than 5% of all the computers on the planet will have more than one CPU in >>>10 years from now. [snip, RH next] >>And no, I don't care about palms and the like. I'm talking about the >>traditional desktop/laptop PC. Times they are a'changing... > >Yes I knew we were not talking about the same population. You don't care about >the million of handhelds out there, you don't care about 400 to 500 million >mobile phones sold each year... > >That's fine with me. It's just your philosophy so there is nothing to argue. >It's just that there are also people out there who care about the population you >have chosen to not count in your stats. In all fairness Chris, performance *was* the topic here. Number of units doesn't mean anything. I can easily predict that in 10 years time less then 5% off the mammals will have tusks. Or let's make it less then 1e-6. But if you're in the tree moving business you don't care about mice. We all have our favourite subjects I guess. (And some seem to have an awful lot of them :-) ... Johan
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