well, you'd know a bit about that Gateway 486-DX2/66V I had, wouldn't you?
(for those who don't know, Marnie got some more use out of that system when I retired it, although I hung on to the flatbed scanner and the big old laser printer for a few more years) The system that replaced it - my last desktop system - cost around $1300. Nowadays you can get a pretty good setup for perhaps $700 to $900 or so; while you can get cheaper systems, you're often giving up a bit too much. On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 05:26:23AM -0400, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: > Wow. I knew it was better and better all the time (and cheaper too, I can > get a really computer for well below $2,000), but didn't know that about > the Cray-1. > > Fascinating. Thanks, Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 9/5/2013 9:25:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > jo...@panix.com writes: > Since that time, though, the price of each successive system has > come down, while the amount of power has continued to climb. I'm > not sure of the exact ratio, but just a single-threaded application > on my notebook PC (a quad-core I7 system roughly comparable to a > MacBook pro) delivers an order of magnitude more computation than > a Cray-1 supercomputer. An application such as PhotoShop that can > use all the power of the PC is better than two orders of magnitude > faster than the Cray, while the amount of memory and storage has > grown even faster than that! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
