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[at ndrew]

Guess I'll chime in, too.

> What was the megahertz speed of your first computer?

Umm.. MY first computer was, I believe, a 386 (not sure on the clock speed).
My family's first computer was... Well, the first one I remember was the
Commodore. But I'm pretty sure we had some before that.

> What is the speed of your present computer?

The one I'm on right now is an Athlon XP 1700+, advertised clock speed of
1.46 GHz. I also have an Athlon 900MHz box, a Pentium III 450MHz box, a dual
Pentium II 350MHz box, a Athlon K6-233 laptop, and a Pentium 90MHz box. Oh,
and I think there's a 486 33DX laptop in the closet, too. :-D

> Have you ever owned a system with a "performance rating"
> instead of a MHz rating?

I'm assuming you're talking about Athlon's XP rating scheme? (i.e. a 1700+
is supposed to perform like a Pentium 1.7 GHz, or something to that effect,
while it's only a 1.4 GHz chip.)

> Do you check your system speed to see if it really is running 
> at the advertised speed?

Not really. If things run, then I'm pretty happy. :-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz 
> [mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Timothy 
> R. Butler
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:12 PM
> To: ChristianSource List
> Subject: [CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Megahurtz Race
> 
> What was the megahertz speed of your first computer? What is 
> the speed of your present computer? Have you ever owned a 
> system with a "performance rating" instead of a MHz rating? 
> Do you check your system speed to see if it really is running 
> at the advertised speed?
> 
> I'm not sure, to be honest -- I'd have to check to see what 
> the TI 99/4A's specs where. My first PC compatible ran at 33 
> MHz, though (it was a Intel 486 DX). 
> 
> My current PC runs at 2.66 GHz (but, to answer the last 
> question, its actual speed is 2657.883). It's a Pentium 4 
> without Hyperthreading... HT boxen run at .06 less GHz. My 
> Mac runs at 2.0 GHz (yes, that's the actual speed too). 
> 
> I've never run a "performance rating" processor. Although, if 
> I were building a DIY PC compatible at the moment, I'd be 
> very tempted by the AMD Athlon 64. (Offtopic: Remember when 
> Cyrix was trying to do a non-MHz rating in the mid-90's?)
> 
> 	-Tim
> 
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