e.stiebler wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
[ actually a lot of good stuff] ;-)
25+ years later, how far have uber-fast machines with uber-large and
uber-cheap storage really gotten us? Not as far as the raw numbers
might lead one to think. I can buy a machine that about fits in my
pocket that has 500 times the memory, 500 times the storage, and has a
clock that's nearly 500 times faster for 1/500th the cost* - a
250,000X price-performance advantage. I think quite a bit of that
500x multiplier is getting pissed away before I type a single
character. Yes it can do more; yes it feels faster. That much
faster? Not in my opinion.
That's why I love to embedded stuff. And even here, any "reasonable"
Real Time OS of today, can't really boot with 48 kbytes of memory.
OS/9 for the 6809 does alot, but not real time.I suspect a real time OS
would be in the same ball park. Graphics is the killer for any small
system and that is where I would check first.
Progress I guess ;-)
Yes. today in one chip you
can do what 5 chips of yesterday can
do with all pins left for I/O stuff.