8 Jan
1998
8 Jan
'98
12:22 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
It would be interesting to attempt to graph the MIPS/VUP/MIPS/Whetstones/etc.
of ancient and contemporary computers, using some approximation of
comparable units. It would be fun to recognize that, say, one of
my old computers was just as fast as an IBM AT, but was available
five years before.
Part of that was demonstrable _then_, albeit subjectively. Format a
standard Tandon or whatever 20 MB disk from the bare oxide on an AT
and on a TRS-80 Model 4. The results will surprise you. (With an XT
the difference was much more ludicrous. I'm told the same applies
with a Color Computer, but hooking up a hard drive is damned near the
only thing I've never done with one. (The inflatable party doll
Program Pak interface is _still_ in Beta test.) 8-)}
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.