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From: mshute@cs.man.ac.uk (Malcolm Shute)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Message-ID: <1808@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Oct 90 13:05:53 GMT
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In article <8139@scolex.sco.COM> seanf (Sean Fagan) writes:
>Using your fingers to do addition is an incredible performance/price ratio
>(since price is 0).
Just to nit-pick... the price of fingers can't be zero, otherwise we'd each
be able to order an unlimited number of them (at zero total cost).

I agree with the rest of the point you were trying to make, though.
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Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all