Re:z/OMG
by thismat on Thursday November 05, 2009 @09:30AM
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Right, and incredibly high speeds is definitely accurate. I can't remember the amount of instructions/second our mainframe can handle, but I remember it being in the multiple hundreds of thousands.
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Several hundred Kilohertz? :-)
It IS incredible - but modern Computers are even more incredible.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not defending it. It frustrates me on a daily basis, especially without having a relational database for some critical information.