On Oct 27, 2011 9:50 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael Mol <[email protected]> [11-10-26 20:40]: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, <[email protected]> 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,
