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Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> [11-10-27 17:10]: |
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> Am 27.10.2011 06:34, schrieb Pandu Poluan: |
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> > On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de |
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> > <mailto:meino.cramer@×××.de>> wrote: |
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> >> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com <mailto:mikemol@×××××.com>> [11-10-26 |
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> > 20:40]: |
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> >> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, <meino.cramer@×××.de |
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> > <mailto:meino.cramer@×××.de>> wrote: |
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> >> > > Hi, |
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> >> > > |
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> >> > > On www.archive.org <http://www.archive.org> I found videos of the |
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> > 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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> >> > > |
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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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> >> > > |
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> >> > > Or in other words: |
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> >> > > |
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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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> >> > |
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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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> >> > |
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> >> > If you want to compare feature sets, be sure to include those. :) |
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> >> > |
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> >> > -- |
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> >> > :wq |
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> >> > |
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> >> Thank you *VERY* much for those nice links!!! :) Great stuff! |
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> >> I know, that benchmarking is anything but science...but on the other |
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> >> hand: Knowing that a PDP-8 (which was newer than the PDP-7 on which |
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> >> Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started to develop UNIX) had about |
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> >> 0.004 MWIPS and a current desktop PC has something like 3500 MWIPS |
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> >> let shine a total different, more brighter light to terms like |
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> >> "computer pioneers"... :) |
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> >> |
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> >> Those days a 'bit' was more a real thing than nowadays :))) |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > Back in 'those days', cycle-counting is a must for all programmers. |
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> > Heck, as recent as 8088, programmers still do cycle-counting (especially |
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> > assembly programmers). |
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> > Kids these days have it sooooooo much easier. |
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> > Oh, and... get off my lawn! :-D |
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> > Rgds, |
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> > |
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> One of my colleagues at the lab still tells stories of the time when he |
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> set up a radio receiver in the canteen so he could hear the mainframe |
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> "buzz" on shortwave radio while his program was running. When the sound |
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> suddenly changed, he knew there was an error. |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Hi, |
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oh YEAH! |
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This is true computer magick! Really! |
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Somehow I miss that day, when little green bit from |
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outer space were little green bits from outer space, |
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and real programmers has gone where no man has been |
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gone before! |
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I started with an Atari 800. I had a "bible" called |
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"Mapping the Atari" which had described EVERY used memory |
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cell with its funtion and what you can do with it. |
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"Peek" and "Poke" was daily business, and GOTO was |
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crime at all. |
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Damn, one knows the function of nearly every chip in |
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this computer and it was possible even to write |
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assembly programs (it was the assembly code of the |
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graphics chip! NOT the CPU!) of the which get executed \ |
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each vertical blank interrupt! |
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Somehow sad, that this time has gone. |
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(Am I getting older?) |
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Best regards, |
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mcc |