http://area42.mwbrooks.com/index.php/2009/12/comment-quandaries Watch for IFOs Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://area42.mwbrooks.com/index.php/2009/12/comment-quandaries/comment-page-1#comment-3256 marcus Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:36:02 +0000 http://area42.mwbrooks.com/?p=741#comment-3256 It occurs to me that readers might not understand my comparison of spam text generators to the ones on an old mainframe. To illustrate: the 10 MIPS speed of the room-sized <a href="http://www.ddj.com/184404102" rel="nofollow">CDC 6600</a> CPU that I used at UT was similar to that of the 8-pin <a href="http://www.zilog.com/docs/z8encorexp/PB0208.pdf" rel="nofollow">Zilog Z8</a> CPU that I now use in my wheelchair's joystick. It occurs to me that readers might not understand my comparison of spam text generators to the ones on an old mainframe. To illustrate: the 10 MIPS speed of the room-sized CDC 6600 CPU that I used at UT was similar to that of the 8-pin Zilog Z8 CPU that I now use in my wheelchair’s joystick.

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