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Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by wmf on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:28PM (#4010833)
If you're actually 10x faster (2x is not enough), people will give you the money.
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Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by astrodust on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:48PM (#4010886)
At the same price point and power consumption? Then it'd be worth recompiling, for sure.
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Re:The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of t... by darkarmani on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @10:23PM (#4016456)
fires up Gentoo box and starts recompiling
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