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Subject: Re: Time to Buy a New Computer? Have 1 GHz.

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 07:12:28 06/23/02

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On June 23, 2002 at 00:05:49, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On June 22, 2002 at 19:56:54, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>
>>Currently wishfully hoping for a Unisys ES7000
>>[8-processor, "true" SMP
>
>I seriously doubt that you need (or want) an 8-processor machine. It won't run
>Crafty 8 times faster than a single CPU machine. With each new processor, the
>speed increase is less and less. For what you'd pay for an 8-cpu machine, you
>could get a killer computer, single or dual processor, or a 64-bit machine.
>
>Russell

All I'm trying to accomplish is to get the fastest computer I can afford, so
will not have to buy another for at least a year or two.  I wish I could say
"money is no object," but who can say that?

Bob D.



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