Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:48:22 02/26/99
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On February 25, 1999 at 14:29:04, Jay Scott wrote: > >On February 25, 1999 at 02:40:22, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>Single-processor might be an antiquated restriction. >> >>I think that probably all we are really left with is size. The thing, minus >>monitor, mouse, and keyboard, would need to weigh less than X pounds or have a >>volume less than Y cubic inches. That's what a microcomputer is, IMHO. > >Or you could put an arbitrary limit on the power draw of the CPU box(es). >The differentiation between categories seems to be increasingly >breaking down, so if you're going to make a distinction at all it'll >have to be an arbitrary one. > > Jay What is a micro and what is a supercomputer? If you get to the paderborn siemens-nixdorf centre, and you search for Ulf Lorenz and Rainer Feldmann, then no doubt you'll find them, or they'll find you. Then at a certain moment they tell you: "Let's go to the tournament room." So you take then from the big hall the one on the right hand side, then you walk through all kinds of corridors, and after a long walk you then finally arrive in the tournament room. However, a keen person will figure out that he only was walking around 2 big rooms. If you would have the courage however to ask where you were walking around so long, then you would know directly know the rest of your life the difference between a micro and a supercomputer, as they will show you a big smile and answer: "We were walking around our computers" Vincent Diepeveen
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