>Jerry;
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>Some time ago I told a joke at our local VFP user group meeting. I said that IBM bought all PC manufacturers and no more PC's would be built starting immediately. IBM is starting a new marketing campaign: "Main Frames for the Home"!
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>Tom

:-)

A few years ago that would have been a wild laugh!
But, with the power of modern PCs it is almost a fact. My 1GHz Athlon with 512MB of RAM and 60GB of HD is about a 'mainframe' by 1983 standards.

Have you seen the specs on the new computer from StarBridge? (can't use the term PC because a license fee of voer $1M/yr puts it out of the PC class)

http://www.starbridgesystems.com/prod-hype.html One config does 12.8 TeraFlops! Power requirements = 1600 watts.

If they brought the fees for that puppy down to reasonable (:>) levels we could all be generating realtime meteor impact graphics!