12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
6:14 p.m.
Bill McDermith wrote:
Perhaps today when you can pack arbitrarily large amounts of
hardware on a chip, memory is (practically) free, we (mostly) all
have internet connections, disks are gigantic, and computer
systems are cheap (er, inexpensive), it's hard to understand the
pdp-8 and contemporary computers... ;-)
But I ask the question is bigger always better? I am the guy who still
uses 640x480 cause this way he can read the screen and the menus at
the same time. I suspect the wheel of computer design will turn again
towards 'smaller' CISC (pdp8-style?) machines as the interconnect
in chips between modules is becoming larger compared to the the gate
speeds.
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
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