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Re: IDL demo during Seybold SF keynote [message #17015 is a reply to message #17006] Tue, 31 August 1999 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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In article <gurman-3108991331360001@eddy.nascom.nasa.gov>,
Joseph B. Gurman <gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 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?)

Let me guess, the PIII was running Windows.

Eric
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