Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
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Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
The first laptop in space was the MacPortable which used a 16MHz 68000.
>See, that doesn't make any sense. You're right, Cavan, they do - then they
>go and use shit processors in their applications. Do you know what the CPU
>of the ISS (International Space Station) is? A 386!!!!! NO SHIT! And the
>laptops they're using are all old Pentium-class Thinkpads!! They do this in
>the name of reliability. But, um, guys - WHY on EARTH should a Pentium be
>more reliable than a Pentium II - or a K6-2/3 for that matter!?
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>>From: Cavan Carroll <cavanc@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject: Re: TI-H: (OT about Grant's 486/68000)
>>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:23:29 PDT
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>>The dumb fucks at Intel already made a chip running over 700 Mhz for a
>>convention.
>>Then they went and said "Hey look, we can make a 700 Mhz cpu or two in the
>>lab,but the hard part is mass producing it."
>>Everybody already knew that!
>>NASA has chips that are running in the Ghz range that are as small as your
>>fucking pinky!
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>> suck it
>> world's biggest idiot
>> Cavan Carrol
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