Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> [11-10-26 20:40]: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, <meino.cra...@gmx.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 :))) Best regards, mcc
