[X4U] XP <> Vista benchmarks [typo correction]

Stroller macmonster at myrealbox.com
Sat Feb 3 08:00:09 PST 2007


On 3 Feb 2007, at 15:50, Stroller wrote:
> ...
> Gutman says "twenty years ago, in their work on the ABYSS security  
> module, IBM researchers concluded that the use of encrypted buses  
> as a protection mechanism was impractical" and when I look up my  
> thesaurus to describe this statement I come up with antonyms for  
> insighful such as "obtuse", "vacuous" and "vapid". Well, duh! Of  
> course encrypted buses were impractical on am Amiga or a 68000  
> Macintosh II. Those things had like 7mhz processors and cost  
> hundreds of thousands of pounds - nowadays ISPs give away routers  
> with 200mhz processors for free when you subscribe to their service.

Correction:
Of course encrypted buses were impractical on _an_ Amiga or a 68000  
Macintosh II. Those things had like 7mhz processors and cost hundreds  
_or_ thousands of pounds.

Stroller.


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