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Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> [11-10-26 20:40]: |
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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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> -- |
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> :wq |
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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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Those days a 'bit' was more a real thing than nowadays :))) |
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Best regards, |
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mcc |