Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:29:31 09/05/01
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On September 05, 2001 at 15:26:53, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 05, 2001 at 15:15:24, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 05, 2001 at 13:07:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>[snip] >>>They will come, but it is not clear that the 18 month cycle will be preserved >>>for the forseeable future. It has already started to lengthen... >> >>I'm not sure about really recent trends, but for the past decade it had actually >>shortened from 18 months to 12. > >If you are right then it means that the latest computers are 1024 >times faster than the computers of 10 years ago. > >I think about machines that everybody can buy >and not about supercomputers. > >It seems to me to be wrong. > >I believe that the 386 is less than 1000 times slower than the latest >pentiums even if you give them 2 processors(computers with more than >2 prcessors are almost not used by the public so I do not count them) > In August of 1991, I bought a 486/33, which was about the fastest you could get at that time. I'd agree that a 1.4 GHz Athlon or a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 is indeed LESS than 1000 times as fast as that 1991 system was.
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