28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
8:15 p.m.
On 9/28/2012 1:20 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Actually it does. GSM, CDMA, etc. require more
significantly more
processing power than was available in a minicomputer in the 1970s.
On 09/28/2012
02:31 PM, ben wrote:
just what is meant by processing power here.
Bigger address space? Faster data streams? Number crunching?
Memory access speed?
All of the above.
Possibly a 64KB address space might just barely suffice for the most
minimal GSM cell phone imaginable, but not for any product that actually
exists. My first cell phone back in 1995, using the now-obsolete IS136
TDMA air interface, used significantly more memory than that.