Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

A bit more than 250 fps, clearly not a problem to read the first two
digits and IME you take a 'snapshot' of a three-digit number in a
quick glance, you don't pick up the individual digits except by
deliberate concentration.

17{blur}. Like I said, didn't want to risk taking my eyes off the road
for a second look!

Just to get back on topic... do you reckon if you replaced the HT leads
on that rather lovely sounding V6 engine with OFC or pure silver
leads... would it make the engine sound any better? ;-)

(I speak in jest of course, but you can actually buy "performance" HT
leads at places like Motorworld...)

Of course, there's a definite possibility that your brain is of
non-standard construction.....

Well I've suspected that to be the case ever since I found out that
other people don't actually see the world as falling green glyphs. :-P

Very impressive, one can see why major corporations beat a path to
your door! :-)

Actually I've got quite a few blue chip companies on the books here. And
before you ask, no, I'm not at liberty to discuss them. All I can say is
that there are several big players in the mortgage intermediary market.

Do you have anything which isn't really just a PC?

Got some old Acorn kit kicking around, couple of StrongARM RISC PCs (and
another one with ARM710), an A7000, few A5000s... good for holding the
door open these days. Shame, cos when that stuff was new it was light
years ahead of anything the Wintel camp could offer.

There's no problem whatsoever with using stuff that's "really just a
PC". The likes of FreeBSD, NetBSD etc (and Linux to a lesser extent) can
give you top notch server performance on cheap x86 hardware... which
because it's *nix means you can charge the customer a small fortune for
maintaining it.

Or alternatively you could do the "Richer Sounds" approach... sell
cheaper and sell more. Which is the approach I've taken. By using
open-source software for servers, and cheap fast x86 hardware, I can
undercut anyone trying to offer Windows based servers and make just as
much profit from it.

But hey, even Mac runs on x86 now.

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