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Re: Apple II in Scientic American
- Subject: Re: Apple II in Scientic American
- From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:49:40 GMT
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Ben Lai <benlai@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
> First thing I noticed was the huge gap between the Apple II and Commodore
> 64 - considering that they had basically the same processor that's a bit
> odd. And then the Playstation2 being barely slower than a Dual G5, also a
> bit out of touch.
It's possible they counted every available processor, e.g. a video game
console might have a main CPU, a graphics processor, a sound processor,
and so on. Of course, very few humans can multitask effectively, so I'm
not sure why you'd measure that way if you're trying to compare a
computer with biological intelligence.
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