Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How fast was ... ?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
>
> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> [11-10-26 20:40]:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On www.archive.org I found videos of the series "Computer Chronicle"
> > > with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the
> > > founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital
> > > Research or short DR).
> > >
> > > Totally amazed by the things which were "brandnew" those days
> > > (1985/1995) and are outclassed by any digital whristwatch nowadays I
> > > became curious about a more exact definition of "faster" in this
> > > area...
> > >
> > > Or in other words:
> > >
> > > Is it really true, that a mobile smartphone of today is as fast as
> > > a big iron of 1975?
> >
> > My understanding is that big iron's outstanding features were:
> > * Uptime
> > * Gobs and gobs and gobs of I/O. (Though I don't know the numbers)
> >
> > If you want to compare feature sets, be sure to include those. :)
> >
> > --
> > :wq
> >
>
> Thank you *VERY* much for those nice links!!! :) Great stuff!
>
> I know, that benchmarking is anything but science...but on the other
> hand: Knowing that a PDP-8 (which was newer than the PDP-7 on which
> Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started to develop UNIX) had about
> 0.004 MWIPS and a current desktop PC has something like 3500 MWIPS
> let shine a total different, more brighter light to terms like
> "computer pioneers"...  :)
>
> Those days a 'bit' was more a real thing than nowadays :)))
>

Back in 'those days', cycle-counting is a must for all programmers. Heck, as
recent as 8088, programmers still do cycle-counting (especially assembly
programmers).

Kids these days have it sooooooo much easier.

Oh, and... get off my lawn! :-D

Rgds,