[aklug] Re: 32 vs 64 bit

That reminds me of a guy I met once. He bought a used dual core Alpha
workstation so he could run a shell script which launched several thousand
other sh's over and over again to keep his dorm room warm in the winter.
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Arthur Corliss
<acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Mike Tibor wrote:
>
> > This is funny. With the exception of my old Alphas which I ditched quite
> > awhile ago, 32 bit single core processors define my home network. :-) I
> > actually can't imagine wasting the money on a multi-core or 64 bit box
> > when everything I can even dream of running runs just fine on a 32 bit
> > single core box.
> >
> > Do I like 64 bit OS's? Of course--I have lots of serious big iron at
> > work and I enjoy working with it. Do I need anything like that at home?
> > Not even remotely.
>
> I don't know, my favorite computer at home is 64-bit, with two processors,
> and even then it doesn't quite feel like it's enough all the time. Of
> course, the processors are clocked at a screaming 250MHz, but the amount of
> thermal energy wafting off those MIPS processors make the den cozy. And
> it still does better OpenGL better than any Intel machine ten years
> younger.
>
> Long live SGI... er... long live Rackable Systems... uh... oh, that's
> right,
> they killed off MIPS/IRIX development. Screw it. I'll be in the den,
> living in the past...
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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