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To: Scumbria who wrote (73893)	2/17/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria: Re: After I hit the respond button, SI took about 30 seconds to bring the window up. Would a 20% faster CPU make any difference? It might if SI upgraded to multi-processor 450 MHz Pentium II Xeon servers! :-) Adam

To: Scumbria who wrote (73893)	2/17/1999 6:11:00 PM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <Very few people have their productivity limited by a lack of CPU speed.> Nice to know that you speak for the masses <ggg>. Don't assume that just because you aren't limited that others aren't. In my previous position (financial planning), before returning to engineering, I had several large complicated spreadsheets which took significant time to re-calc. Imagine the time wasted when you hit calc key and have to wait a minute or possibly longer for the results to update. Now imagine doing that 100 times a day. The extra cost for a machine that provides 20% more power was very easily justified and the payback period very short. Now imagine an entire department passing and linking similar spreadsheets....I think you get the idea. It's hard to imagine that our financial area is unique. This is just one boring, not NSASA related, application where the more CPU power the better. I'm sure others working with large databases who need to do multiple searches would also tell you the same thing. FF