11 Jun
2024
11 Jun
'24
9:17 p.m.
On 2024-06-10 10:05 a.m., Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
On 10/06/2024 00:28, ben via cctalk wrote:
I thought a PI was $10.
The CPU Price it keeps going UP ... :(
8008 $25 1975
8080 $75 MITS kit 1975
8088 $125
386 $130 (286 $20)
Hardly, you can pick up a new CPU today for less than $50. It's not
going to be particularly fast, but it'll run circles round most decade
old CPUs. I think the biggest change (other than speed, word
length etc), is
number of SKUs. For desktop systems, there are dozens of different SKUs
per microarchitecture, each with varying cache size, core count,
clockspeed, and present/absent integrated graphics. In the server space,
the varying SKUs are amplified, with number of PCIe lanes, socket
support etc almost multiplying the number of SKUs by an order of magnitude.
Josh Rice
I got a headache from reading that.
Really a minor point, architecture has not gotten better since the
RISC/CISC debate, just faster clock speeds, newer graphic processors and
the like, in my view.
Ben.
Gates's law "The speed of software halves every 18 months"