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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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>> > 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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>> Those days a 'bit' was more a real thing than nowadays :))) |
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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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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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