Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!roberts@icst-ecf.arpa From: roberts@icst-ecf.arpa (ROBERTS, JOHN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Why a Micro is not as powerful as a Vax Message-ID: <2286@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 11:51:20 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.2286 Posted: Mon Jan 12 11:51:20 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 22:36:10 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 30 >> I was thinking the other day about how people claim that their Atari ST >> has the power of a Vax 750 and why this is bull because the power is >> not harnessed. > Here here!!! I get tired of people saying that they can configure their > computer to outperform a vax. I fail to see how this controversy ever got started in the first place. Our Vax, along with its collection of disk drives, consumes thousands of watts of electrical power, and continually billows hot air out the back. I have yet to see a micro that comes anywhere near this awesome display of raw power. (On the other hand, the supercomputer at our site is so powerful that it requires a large supply of chilled water for cooling.) In any event, this debate draws attention away from a much more critical issue of our times: the increasing use of "colorization" in our computer video displays. Surely the use of color VDTs is an affront to the primal esthetic purity of the old reliable monochrome displays! A panel of the artistically sensitive should be formed to investigate this problem immediately!John Roberts roberts@icst-ecf.ARPA ------