[wellylug] Buy 3-head PC pre-loaded with Linux

[Nic Cave-Lynch]

Good point about the figure for dual-core. I'm so old that all this new-fangled 
dual core stuff is taking some getting used to.

The first computer of which I had any knowledge (admittedly not one I ever used) 
had tubes of mercury round the outside of the cards for the ALU registers: 
magnetic pulses of different polarity were injected in one end to represent ones 
or zeros, then rad out at the other. The length of the column of mercury defined 
the register size. Ah those were the days: when men were real men, hardware 
engineers had mercury poisoning, and furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were 
_real_ furry creatures from Alpha Centauri...

Back to the grindstone now.


Phillip Hutchings wrote:
>> I guess, fundamentally, it's a difference in perception: you perceive 
>> that
>> Bogomips is irrelevant for your assessment of performance, and I say it
>> correlates reasonably well with _my_ assessment of performance. Who's 
>> to say
>> who's right?
> 
> My machine has 3700 BogoMIPS. It's a 1.83 Core 2 Duo. As you say
> you're compiling I would put money on that this machine would be just
> as fast, if not faster, than a 6000 BogoMIPS CPU, BogoMIPS doesn't
> count multi-core/multi-CPU machines as it's not essential for kernel
> timing, both CPUs should be the same speed.
>