Speed now & then (Space and time?)

[Paul Koning]

> 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:
>>>> 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!"
> 
> 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