I don't know what's going on with the comparisons lately, but here's a
fun one. Paging the fact checkers...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-mainframe
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 6:26 AM Tom Brennan wrote:
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> I don't know what's going on with the comparisons lately, but here's a
> fun one. Paging the fact checkers...
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-mainframe
>
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"But I wonder, are we using all that computation effectively to make as
much difference as our forebears did after the leap from pencil and paper to
the 7090?"
IMHO, no.
DJ
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Burroughs had the B5000 in 1961.
At 100,000 instructions per second, the 7090 wasn't all that fast.
Pilot ACE, in 1951, could execute 15,000 instructions per second.
On 2021-12-22 17:26, Tom Brennan wrote:
I don't know what's going on with the comparisons lately, but here's a
fun one. Paging t
Thank you for the pointers to those two very interesting articles.
I never the introduction of microcode linked to the 1401 compatibility of S/360
- I thought this was an emulator that used the 360 ISA as-is?
In the other one, I think what we need to take away from that is how the
scarcity of n
I'm enjoying the article so far, and I'm sure contributors will chime in who
are far more knowledgeable than I. But the first thing I notice is that he
spends some time estimating how inferior the early 7090 was to a modern laptop
in terms of clock speed, RAM, and tape-driven I/O, and concludes
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:04:01AM -0600, Dave Jones wrote:
> "But I wonder, are we using all that computation effectively to
> make as much difference as our forebears did after the leap from
> pencil and paper to the 7090?"
>
> IMHO, no.
> DJ
Of course we do. Try to animate an icon using ju
On 2021-12-23 01:59, Bob Bridges wrote:
I'm enjoying the article so far, and I'm sure contributors will chime
in who are far more knowledgeable than I. But the first thing I
notice is that he spends some time estimating how inferior the early
7090 was to a modern laptop in terms of clock speed,
Oops. Yeah, what he said.
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On 22/12/2021 14:04, Dave Jones wrote:
> "But I wonder, are we using all that computation effectively to make as
> much difference as our forebears did after the leap from pencil and paper to
> the 7090?"
>
> IMHO, no.
> DJ
>
> -
Pictures (aka icons) are the preferred choice of those who cannot read.
On 22/12/2021 22:42, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:04:01AM -0600, Dave Jones wrote:
>> "But I wonder, are we using all that computation effectively to
>> make as much difference as our forebears did a
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Thank you for the pointers to those two very interesting articles.
I never the introduction of microcode linked to the 1401 compatibility of S/360
- I
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Burroughs had the B5000 in 1961.
At 100,000 instructions per
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