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Subject: Re: first step in defining if a program is Gm level

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 08:57:58 07/02/01

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On July 02, 2001 at 09:24:16, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On July 01, 2001 at 21:57:55, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>It all seems like a basically worthless struggle to me trying to say the
>>computers are GM strength.  So if everyone says at some point in the future that
>>the computer programs are GM strength, then so what?  We've all known that cars
>>are faster than horses for years now, but the average horse will still outlive
>>the average car, and a good horse will still get you over more difficult terrain
>>than ANY car or SUV or truck, and you're never going to race them against
>>eachother.  So there's no real purpose in the comparison.  A horse is a horse, a
>>car is a car.  A computer is a computer, and a GM is a GM.  And none of them are
>>eachother.
>
>That more or less nails the essence of the question. Apples are apples, oranges
>are oranges and we don't care too much about lemons...yet.
>

In that sense lemons are "crunching" many oranges and apples too, nowadays.




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