Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 02:54:23 +0200 From: Sune Stjerneby <stjerneby@usa.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) Message-ID: <35676FBF.9DF8E163@usa.net> References: <13072.895601583@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > "Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has > > a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk > > storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on > > voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. > > What's the first question that the computer community asks? > > > > "'Is it PC compatible?'" > > No, that's the second question. The first question would be "where > can I get one of these?" :-) Ah, these specs remind me of paragraph from a paper of the MIT Athena project I've got lying around. Basically it reads: ** 4. Hardware The typical Athena workstation is roughly a ''3M'' machine; that is; it has a 1 million-instructions-per-second processor, a megapixel (1000 x 1000) display, and three or four megabytes of memory. It also has a mouse, a local disk (typically 30-70 megabytes), and an Ethernet network interface. (..) ** This was around ~1988. Again, there's some dimension-twisting here. A fairly decent graphics display, and networking, yet fairly low on disk- and memory resources compared to current hardware. The actual hardware consisted of MicroVAXen and VAXstations. Another fascinating fact - MIT has setup HINFO entries in the DNS for virtually every box on campus. Great for statistics (plenty of NetBSD boxen). -- //bwulf - Sune Stjerneby <stjerneby@usa.net>, [2:238/260.4], ++45 56219988, DK-208, EU -- "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." -- "4.4BSD UNIX - A Real Operating System for Real Users." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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