Gilles
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From: John R Pierce <pierce@No-Spam>
To: <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 1999 7:43 PM
Subject: Changing expectations
> > > 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.
>
> The computer I learned programming on had a 3.6uS cycle time (around
> 300kHz), and 8K 16bit words of core. The hard disc drive was 510,000
words
> (and 14" in diameter!).
>
> -jrp
>
>