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On 4/2/14, 12:44 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:35:18 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/2/14, 11:41 AM, wrote:

How do these movies get from the file server to your TV?

Through the magic of wi-fi. Modern computers, servers, TV sets, DVD
players, and boxtop devices have wired/wireless router hookup
capabilities, and that means they can communicate with each other.
Perhaps you can trade in that 300 bps Hayes...

I know how it CAN be done, I was asking how you do it.

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My wife prefers to run her Mathematica9 projects on my iMac instead of
on her Win 7 i5 machine, which is only about 18 months old. Calcs and
procedures run a hell of a lot faster on the Mac.

Sure

Oh, they do. My wife works a lot with math, stats, et cetera. She took a
*lot* of upper level math and stat courses to get her M.S. and Ph.D, and
use them to help along various research projects in which she is involved.

There is no reason why a pure math program wouldn't run very fast on a
286, particularly if you had the math co processor..
We went to the moon with slower machines.
It is only the bloated operating systems that need the extra speed.

Mathematica will run on XP, SP3, the box says. It prefers a 64-bit OS on
Macs. I have no idea how fast it will run on obsolete gear and OS, though.