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[Dave McGuire]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>> I replaced this with another aging machine - a PIII running at 500Mhz,
>> which only uses 100Watts more - but I can certainly get a lot more out
>> of it.  So that old machine certainly cost me more to run than the new
>> one in terms of performance for electricity used.  I certainly don't
>> need a 2Ghz AMD64 with 4GB of RAM for use as a router.  Today.  In 5
>> years from now, my desktop will be very likely be my router.
> 
> A P-III is "an aging machine"?

   Welcome to the PC world...where something becomes obsolete just 
because something newer starts shipping!

   Remember what P.T. Barnum said about suckers being born every minute?

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL