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From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RE  The IBM PC...
Keywords: CRAY vs 2**32 C-64s
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.211918.21522@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 90 21:19:18 GMT
References: <624@compnect.UUCP> <2682a36b-1efd.8comp.sys.ibm.pc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> <443@newave.UUCP>
Organization: Conspiracy?  What conspiracy?
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In article <443@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
]It goes something like this:  to make your Cray PC-Compatible, you first
]have to slow it down by inserting 10,000 NOP's between every instruction,
]then remove all of the memory except 640K, buy a Cray CGA card for $53,000,
]and wire up a joystick to it somehow.  There was more to it than this,
]but when you got all done, they claimed that you could run Flight Simulator

But be careful - in vector mode, the CRAY can do NOPs very fast ....

One of the early reasons for clock-speed switches on PCs was that,
if you run in high-speed mode, the SPACE INVADERS will come and
squash you before you get 3 shots off, and your flight simulator
will be simulating Piper Cub controls with a Lear-Jet engine.

Since my Toshiba 1100+ portable has proprietary slots that
presumably don't take too-slow add-on cards, I assume this is why
it's stiill got a slow-switch.
-- 
				Thanks;  Bill
Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 HolmdelNJ 07733 2019490705 erebus.att.com!wcs
# Actually, it's *two* drummers, and we're not marching, we're *dancing*.
# But that's the general idea.