They are here! M$ and a new trick!

[Jettah]

@Speulgoudmannegie

Fully off topic!! Lots of excuses.

Komst hailmoal oet Stad? Ende fot, ja! Hefe Weiss bier? Lekker man! Kom moar ais aine drink'n!

Tjitte (daipfraize...)

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@mikeymike

It reminds me of a story I heard about the old days of IBM and mainframes, where they used to charge depending on how many CPU cycles were used by the customer. Damn that would be expensive on Windows

It reminds me of IBM mainframes using cardreaders, way back in the seventies. I used to work at a local computer centre where 5 cardreaders were employed. Licenced for use at up to 100 cards or so a minute. Until one of our more clever minds discovered that you only needed a different belt to drive the machine. The puleys were all in place to achieve a 600 cards per minute performance. We only paid for a low performance 100 cards per minute machine. Nobody noticed. Until suddenly without any reason am IBM senior technician came down and noticed the incredible speed of the machines...

Just for the fun of reciting...
cheers,
Tjitte

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@ mikeymike

reckon Longhorn will get shelved. I think the featureset MS wanted to release with it is going to get broken down over a number of releases, as it has done with MS and "next gen OS's" for a long time.

Couldn't it be that longhorn is a bit resource-hungry and that Intel has a few problems to deal with their P5 incarnation of the processor? Heat problems for instance? It is reported that the P5 already consumes about a 135 Watts while not significantly outperforming a top-notch P4. Which means that power consumption will be enormous when higher clockings ar reached.

But why are we so interested in Wintel? We eat, sleap, dream, chase, love, hug, caress, toy, pat, tickle, kiss, wipe, customize, and do all other kinds of frolicking about an Amiga, THE Amiga, isn't it?

cheers,

Tjitte.