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Article #2969Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Chad Irby
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 23:04
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 23:04
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bayleyp (bayleyp@slip.net) wrote: : : Alternatively you could multiprocess 10,000 8086s. After all, the P6 is : a really fast 8086. BTW, how the HELL do they keep that 9000 P6 : supercomputer cool? Well, according to the article in Byte, the beast need 400 kilowatts of power and takes up 1500 square feet. That's about a million BTUs worth of cooling. Considering the efficiencies of cooling and such, they're going to need a megawatt of power just to turn it on. -- Chad Irby / My greatest fear: that future generations will, cirby@gate.net / for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.gate.net!not-for-mail From: cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 20 Jan 1996 18:04:53 -0500 Organization: CyberGate, Inc. Message-ID: <4drsel$ea0g@hopi.gate.net> References: <4de04d$ekmm@navajo.gate.net> <4depr4$qaq@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <30FDBA10.196E@mts.se> <4dlt57$2552@seminole.gate.net> <bayleyp-1901962132270001@slipads12.ads.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hopi.gate.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]