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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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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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My understanding is that big iron's outstanding features were: |
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* Uptime |
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* Gobs and gobs and gobs of I/O. (Though I don't know the numbers) |
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If you want to compare feature sets, be sure to include those. :) |
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:wq |
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