On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:02 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:41:03AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> - CPU doesn't grow nearly as fast as those three. > > In 1995 I had a Pentium 166 and a 56 kbps modem. Now, today the fastest > > CPU you can get from Intel is 3.6 GHz. However, the fastest dial modem > > you can get today is still 56k (remember that the majority of people > > worldwide are still on dial up). That means that for a 2200% increase > > in the maximum speed of a consumer-grade processor, there has a been 0% > > increase in the maximum speed of a dial up modem. A similar phenomenon > > has occurred for disk space. > > So? We're talking “bandwidth”, not “dial-up modem bandwidth” -- thankfully, > the world is progressing, and we're moving away from dial-up at lightning > speeds. :-) In 1995 I had a 28.800 modem -- today, I have 6Mbit at about the > same price (probably a bit lower). That's a 21300% increase to match your > 2200% increase :-)
But there are still many people stuck on dial-up, because of where they live. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "You're a good example of why some animals eat their young." Jim Samuels
