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pedantic, definition
In your recent writeup about dual cores, (here), you say “He augured that dual-core processors will be the greatest advance in performance since the introduction of the 386 and sliced bread.”
Spelling issues aside, sliced bread was not a great technological achievement nor a good step for the majority of the world’s bakeries to take. By preslicing the bread, air is allowed to penetrate deep inside the bread, which makes it stale and unfit for eating much quicker. So larger bakers add preservitives and such to make it last longer. In the end we have bread that goes bad faster and is loaded with preservatives that clinical studies will probably be studying for the next ten years. Progress indeed. Please refrain from using the phrase “The greatest advance(ment)... since sliced bread” in the future unless you mean that dual-cores are a step in the wrong direction.
(From The Inquirer user letters)