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Kyonshi wrote:
> On 8/4/2024 6:09 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 8/3/2024 10:38 PM, Mark P. Nelson wrote:
>>> Look, the whole point of the *personal* computer was that you didn't 
>>> have to rent time from
>>> IBM to figure out your profit/loss balance.
>>>
>>> Ever since then, every computer company has been trying desperately 
>>> to revive the "You
>>> only rent it" model to bolster their bottom line, no matter their 
>>> public face on the question.
>>>
>>> We're getting closer and closer to no longer having personal 
>>> computers which we own and
>>> can configure/control as we wish but rather Microsoft or Banana 
>>> computers for which we pay
>>> a regular fee.
>>>
>>> Pfui!
>>
>> Its not just computers.
>>
> 
> well, by now lots of things have more computing power than was used to 
> get man to the moon. e.g. cars.

What units are computing power measured in?