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Old 8th Mar 2009, 20:35
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Comparison not relevant

The important fact is not the speed of the processor nor the ram but what the system needs . If the system only has four or five calculations to make per sec does it need the power to do ten thousand ? No and more importantly it will be reliable if it is simpler , so yes most ac computers are very slow by modern standards but they are a thousand times more reliable and that is the most important fact
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