* ObjectWiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Sep 27. 2002 12:59]: > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:07, Kevin McDermott wrote: > > Still doesn't really answer where our power is going. > > > > If a 4.7GHz machine is 1000 times more powerful than a 4.77Mhz machine, why don't >things go 1000 times faster? > > > > Memory has increased even more, and storage devices too... > > > > If you consider that the Motorola 68000 series of processors were developed for >use in Mini-computers, and nowadays pretty much any modern processor can emulate the >chip very quickly...I still get left feeling that somewhere, someone's consuming >processor power for no gain. > > The answer is much simpler. The more power is available, the more people > put into the programs and the more resources they need. Just look at the > size of Excel or Word on disk now compared to a few years ago and most > of the users use it in exactly the same way. >
Are you suggesting that Excel/Word are close to 1000 times more powerful? Don't they perform the same basic task as Lotus 1-2-3 was managing on those self-same 4.77MHz processors, with some graphical bells and whistles, can those bells and whistles really be accounting for the 10000% increase in processing power? Kevin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
