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01/02/07 18:27
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#130341 - Bill Gates's constant
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Richard Erlacher said:

If these CPU's were really capable of that 3.6 GHz, it probably wouldn't take Windows XP >90 seconds to open a file, which it often does.

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Just like Moore's law, Planck's constant; that is the Bill Gates's constant: the time taken for Windozes to boot. They keep coming up with newer versions of Windozes to overload the faster CPUs.



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Clock Source Of Celeron uP            01/01/70 00:00      
   It's internal            01/01/70 00:00      
      since the 386?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Earliest PLL multiplier            01/01/70 00:00      
            It's misleading ... and it's confusing            01/01/70 00:00      
               Bill Gates's constant            01/01/70 00:00      
               Defrag time            01/01/70 00:00      
                  I run defrag once a day            01/01/70 00:00      
                     defrag            01/01/70 00:00      
                        defrag!            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Old age?            01/01/70 00:00      
                           You've got that wrong, Andy!            01/01/70 00:00      
                              age            01/01/70 00:00      
               Speed limit            01/01/70 00:00      
   if you are feeling brave..            01/01/70 00:00      
      So, how fast a signal was that?            01/01/70 00:00      
         It was a 1Ghz celery it clocked to 1.8Ghz            01/01/70 00:00      
   Thanks            01/01/70 00:00      

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