On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On www.archive.org I found videos of the series "Computer Chronicle" > with Richard Cheifet and Gary Kildall (the inventor of CP/M and the > founder of Intergalactical Digital Research, later known as Digital > Research or short DR). > > Totally amazed by the things which were "brandnew" those days > (1985/1995) and are outclassed by any digital whristwatch nowadays I > became curious about a more exact definition of "faster" in this > area... > > Or in other words: > > Is it really true, that a mobile smartphone of today is as fast as > a big iron of 1975?
My understanding is that big iron's outstanding features were: * Uptime * Gobs and gobs and gobs of I/O. (Though I don't know the numbers) If you want to compare feature sets, be sure to include those. :) -- :wq
