The CPUs in today’s PCs totally mop the floor computationally with any decade or more old mainframe. That isn’t the problem here. FR is not compute bound. It is I/O bound. Only purpose built hardware can deal efficiently with that.
88 posted on 11/02/2012 8:45:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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