Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants
"commanonce" <philp-3Y/[email protected]>
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> Comparing an Amdahl mainframe with a small software-only emulator is like comparing elephants and gerbils. If we accept the "28 MIPS" figure from a previous post, then the "small software-only emulator" is about the same power as an Amdahl 5890-250, which was still being sold new at the end of the 1980s. > If you had been at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, would you > have been heckling Wilbur and Orville, regaling them with evidence > of much precedent involving failed prior heavier-than-air flight > attempts and assailing their science? I can almost hear you > hollering, "Hey! You chaps over there! What makes you think that > two bicycle mechanics can overcome the laws of physics?" They were widely expected to succeed. The Smithsonian had abandoned its own attempts for that reason. They weren't the first to fly a heavier than air machine. You have to add "controlled" and "sustained". Everything they did had been done before - just not all at once. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/JjlUgA/vN2EAA/kG8FAA/dpFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: hercules-advocacy-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/