From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1999 - 21:55:27 MDT
Aaron Davidson wrote:
>
> I don't know if this is bullshit or not, but it sounds pretty amazing.
>
> A company called "Star Bridge Systems" is claiming they can have $1000
> computers in 18 months which are 60000 times faster than a PII-350:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/supercomp.idg/
I think some people were extremely skeptical of their metrics -
something along the lines of "You're counting each transistor as a
floating-point operation."
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