4 May
2002
4 May
'02
7:20 a.m.
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
Ok, in the interest of sparking discussion and to fine tune the formula,
it's:
Awp
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BI
A = Area in square meters
w = Weight in kilograms
p = Power in Watts
B = Total storage bits (i.e. total K-bytes * 8 or total M-bytes * 1024 * 8)
I = Instructions per Second
We calculated the Zuse 1 and the Zuse factor came out to something like
200.
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Speaking of
which, the Zuse factor formula was officially proposed today
at VCF Europa 3.0. I've created a PHP script that computes your
[...]
If you don't like the formula, blame Hans,
but it does seem to work for
the most part.
And what is the formula you finally decided on?