Word: cpu
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...well does OS/2 perform? This is highly dependent on the hardware. According to IBM, OS/2 requires a 386 or better CPU and 4 MB of RAM. However, we recommend against running it with 4 MB if you plan on getting any useful work done on the computer. Eight MB is usually adequate, and 16 MB is bliss. Increased memory doesn't add any capabilities to the operating system, but it speeds up most operations by requiring less data to be swapped out to the hard drive...
Other versions of the rumor are more outlandish, claiming that an infected machine will be sent into an "nth-complexity infinite binary loop" which is supposed to be so complex that the computer's central processing unit (CPU) will be "severely damaged...
While machines currently used on the network have one central processing unit (CPU), the new server will have several CPUs and can be expanded, Burner said yesterday...
...same time, Apple is rumored to be revamping its wildly successful PowerBook series to use newer Motorola 68LC040 CPU technology, rather than the PowerBook for the past two years...
Wolfram Research has released a new version of its popular Mathematica system in a native Power Macintosh format, and it is here that the new CPU architecture really shines...