[AndrewC]

You skipped an excercise

Sure, because it is pointless.

P.S. You need an update on your facts.

Each Pentium 4 processor chip has 512K of performance-enhancing level-two cache, 55 million transistors, and advanced (SSE2) multimedia instructions.

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I think you just proved my point. The incremental cost of adding a few transistors is negligible.

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Also, as technologically savy as you are, I assumed you had a really old machine.

;^)