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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (77486)	3/10/2000 9:11:00 AM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

SB, Unless you start thinking of computers as the backends of almost all modern economic activity (bank ATMs, Walmart product databases, purchasing and receiving for almost all companies, supply chain management for DELL, tracking system for the FedEx, backend for all mobile networks, the Internet ... I can go on and on) and stop thinking of them a desktop-bound consumer toys, you will never appreciate how increased CPU horsepower is being put to use by software architects like me. Are increased productivity in the area that I mentioned above contributing to the growth and development of the economy? If one uses computers as a combo paper weight and cup holder (or watch porno and surf the Web at the same time using two CPUs, as Michael burke once put it) then indeed improved CPUs mean nothing. But that is not how those who know how to efficiently use computers are using them. And there are many of these folks. -BGR.