Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:00:49 07/04/03
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On July 04, 2003 at 09:12:58, Anson T J wrote: >I'm not sure of the speed of cpus in the 80s but if I remember in 89 we still >had 8086s in schools at only 10MHz. > >A machine 300 times faster would cost a bomb back then. Not sure how much, but >loads. How much would people be willing to pay for a 1800 GHz PC today? price of a machine doing in 2003 about 35.6 trillian calculations a second (that's not nodes but a bit less than it can do instructions a clock) at a vector machine (can do more instructions a clock than our PC's) is about $680 million dollar. See for example http://technology.nzoom.com/technology_detail/0,1608,157816-113-116,00.html. So if you can build a PC that can do only a part of that but without vector processing, then that is worth way more. The problem is: Software from the 80s is very poor compared to software of the 90s and that's again very poor compared to software of the 21th century... >On July 04, 2003 at 08:44:42, ludicrous wrote: > >>If a super strong program like Ruffian was taken back in the early 80's in the >>form of a 3.0 Ghz PC, with a chessbase interface, about how much would a chess >>fanatic back then be willing to pay (including the PC) for it? >> >>Just a thought.
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