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Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #17019 is a reply to message #17006]

Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Joseph B. Gurman (gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov) writes:

> During Steve Jobs's keynote at the Seybold publishing conference in
> San Francisco today (August 31), they ran side-by-side IDL rendering demos
> on a Pentium III (600 MHz) and a 500 MHz G4 PowerMac, which supposedly
> does floating point ops at > 1 Gflops. (Guess which machine won, by a
> factor fo ~ 4?)

Yeah, but if you can't REBIN unsigned long integers.... :-)

Cheers,

David
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		Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 01 September 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote By: gurman on Wed, 01 September 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote By: korpela on Wed, 01 September 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote By: gurman on Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote By: korpela on Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00
		Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote By: davidf on Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00

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