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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2014
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Here come da Judge...
On 4/2/14, 1:01 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:53:57 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 4/2/14, 12:44 PM, wrote:
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.
The requirements are for the user interface, not the math.
I had no idea you were the rec.boats maven on Mathematica. So, you must
be aware that on a computer running 12 processing cores at 2.4GHz and
one running a quad-core processor at 3.2GHz, the 12 core machine was
twice as fast on a standard benchmark. Must be the user interface, eh?
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