🚀 go-pugleaf

>> 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!

<Standard disclaimers. These are not even my opinions, let alone anyone
else's.>

                                    John Roberts
                                    roberts@icst-ecf.ARPA

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