On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:13 PM, e.stiebler 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.
Progress I guess ;-)
That's one of the big reasons why I moved into the embedded world
too. Efficient programming is still valued in that world.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL