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Hi, |
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On www.archive.org I found videos of the series "Computer Chronicle" |
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with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the |
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founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital |
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Research or short DR). |
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Totally amazed by the things which were "brandnew" those days |
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(1985/1995) and are outclassed by any digital whristwatch nowadays I |
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became curious about a more exact definition of "faster" in this |
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area... |
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Or in other words: |
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Is it really true, that a mobile smartphone of today is as fast as |
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a big iron of 1975? |
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I know, that it is nearly totally false ;) to compare a big iron and |
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a smartphone on base on such few parameters such as clock speed, |
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amount of RAM, size of the screen and other isolated things, but |
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I dont intended to create a scientific work here... ;) |
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This is more for just the fun of it. |
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AND: |
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I would like to compare PRICES! |
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For example (totally fiction and not based on any knowledge...) |
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A PDP-11 costs 25000 $ and was/is as fast as my konqstar mobile phone for 30 EUR. |
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Are there any comparisons like that example with the PDP-11? |
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What was the real performance of those computers of the computer history? |
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How much more of "computing power" one do get today for what less |
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of money? |
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Is it really true, that I can carry the computing power of a |
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datacenter of 1985 in my pocket nowadays? |
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Thank you very much for any nice idea, story or of course comparison |
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in advance!i :) |
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Best regards, |
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mcc |
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