Changing expectations

Steve Gottlieb (sgottlieb@No-Spam)
Thu, 30 Mar 1999 19:00:34 -0800

In a message dated 3/30/00, Jim Van Nuland writes:

> Yes, expectations *do* change -- hard to believe I first computed
> on a machine that had a 10 KiloHz clock rate, and 20 kbytes of
> memory....

Is that really 10 KHz? Now, classroom calculators such as a TI-89 run at
10-12 MHz (Motorola 68000 processor) and do symbolic calculus.

Steve Gottlieb


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