Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:55:22 05/15/01
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On May 15, 2001 at 15:48:21, Joshua Lee wrote: >I was looking at one of my books on computer chess which covers the WCCC of 1974 >and previous events and i wondered about that old hardware and how it compares >to lets say the fist pentiums. The list is : >Burroughs B5500 very slow >Data General Nova 2, 800 16 bit minicomputer. < 1 mip. >Control Data 6400 , 6600 6600 was very fast. For scientific apps it will still likely zap today's micros. >CDC Cyber 73, 74 >Hewlett-Packard HP 3000 >HP 2100 >Honeywell 635, 6060 >IBM 704, 7090, 360/65, 360/91, 370/145,370/155, 370/195 The /360 model 91 was very fast... same for the 195 /370 machine. They were mainframes with 100x the I/O thruput of today's micros, but not as fast cpu-wise. >DEC PDP-6, PDP-10, PDP 11/45 11/45 was dec's 16 bit mini... nice box but very slow by today's standards. >GCS Alpha 16 >MANIAC I >UNIVAC 1106,1110, 1108, 494, 418III the 1106, 08 and 10 were fast machines. 36 bit words, good FP, but not up to today's standards by a long way. >Varian 620i >Xerox Data Systems 940 >ICL 4/70, 1909/5 >M-20 The ICL was a piece of trash. > >Any Info would be appreciated. Thankyou None of those machines approach today's speeds overall, although most would bury a micro in terms of I/O throughput today. Many would bury a micro in terms of memory bandwidth also.
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