From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:57:09 -0500, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>A story that lets you wait until you're 2/3 through before it tells you, "oh
>yes, software has to be specially written to take full advantage of
>multiprocessors?"  This fact takes a lil' bit away from the authors'
>earthshaking revelation, no?  How nice that they tested with one app only, and
>didn't mention cache stalls or the possible effects of two identical tasks on
>same.
>
>In short, fegh.  Nice to know that Mac journalists have even shabbier
>standards than PC ones.  I wouldn't have thought....  Nah, I'm not shocked.

I put 'em all under the general category of damn lies and statistics.

Most computers nowadays are faster than I need anyway.  I'm more concerned
about having to reinstall the OS every two years because the OS starts to
get wobbly...

 /m

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5