29 Mar
2018
29 Mar
'18
4:50 p.m.
On Mar 29, 2018, at 7:05 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 03/29/2018 02:24 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
As a real contrast, consider, say, the IBM 1620. Go look up the cycle
times on that beast.
And yet, productive work was performed on it. Indeed the industrial
variant, the 1710 was used for early process control.
Or drum machines. Dutch airplane maker Fokker used one (FERTA) for airplane design. And
its successor ARMAC was where the Internet routing algorithm (shortest path algorithm) was
first run.
paul
>
HOWEVER, a variant of "Boyle's Law" warns that software and content
> will expand to fit all available space and speed.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, allison via cctalk wrote:
We have proof and it is us.
Or, as Walt Kelly ("Pogo") said, "We have met the enemy, and he is
us."
I posited that 2 decades ago in a wired article.
My CP/M machine booted
in seconds while waiting for
the winders box to decide if it would/could.
"The new machine is so much faster, that it can almost get out of its
own way!"