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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:07:37
Message-Id: CAK2H+efVNDsRBMBEfoRYxqaUjw7OsyVoNvaKXJs98J_rnes34w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:56 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On www.archive.org I found videos of the series "Computer Chronicle"
5 > with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the
6 > founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital
7 > Research or short DR).
8 <SNIP>
9 > Is it really true, that I can carry the computing power of a
10 > datacenter of 1985 in my pocket nowadays?
11 >
12 > Thank you very much for any nice idea, story or of course comparison
13 > in advance!i :)
14 >
15 > Best regards,
16 > mcc
17 >
18
19 Fundamentally, you're really talking about Moore's Law:
20
21 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
22
23 Cheers,
24 Mark