11 Apr
2018
11 Apr
'18
9:43 a.m.
On Apr 11, 2018, at 11:05 AM, Liam Proven <lproven
at gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 March 2018 at 19:53, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Nice. It would be interesting to throw in some even older systems. One that comes to
mind is PLATO. I don't remember exactly what it delivered for response time, there
were good test results on it. Somewhere in the 100 ms range, I believe, much of which was
transmission delays due to low baud rates. And that was with 600 users, sharing a quad
processor 4 x 10 MHz machine, in 1976.
paul
It would be fun to do a "generalized Moore's Law" chart, showing not just
transistor count growth (Moore's subject) but also the many other scaling changes of
computing: disk capacity, recording density, disk IOPS, disk bandwidth, ditto those for
tape, CPU MIPS, memory size, memory bandwidth, network bandwidth...
This is the most telling I've seen in a long time...
https://danluu.com/input-lag/