Having read most of the replies with interest I'm prompted to note that at work we haven't updated our computers, beyond changing to LCD monitors, for about three years now and don't expect to any time soon. It used to be that processor speed was increasing right in line with Moore's law and we were getting a useful increase in processing speed about every two years that made it worth upgrading. It present processor speed has run into a brick wall. Hard drives are still getting larger and faster and that makes some difference, but not a lot.

What I am really noticing at the moment is that the prices for computers are plummeting. I guess that now that processor speeds have pretty much stabalised chip prices and manufacturing costs are droping and we are seeing that and the effects of competition in the bottom line. I guess that helps with finding the heckofalot of machines that dwildesnl is after :).

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re: multi-PC tasking by GrandFather
in thread multi-PC tasking by samizdat

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