tonym
04-06-2000, 09:04 PM
The Power of Today's Computers
You're going to a child's birthday party. You stop at a drugstore and buy a
card that, when opened, plays happy birthday. The kid's grandparents bought
him the game system called Playstation, and his parents are
videotaping the party.
The home video camera they use to take pictures of the party contains more
processing power than an IBM 360, the wonder machine that gave birth to the
mainframe computer age.
The Playstation game system runs on a higher -performance processor than the
original 1976 Cray super computer, which in its day was accessible to only
the most elite physicists.
And when somebody throws away your little musical birthday card during the
clean-up, they are disposing of more machine processing power than existed
in the entire world before 1950.
Something to think about...
Tony
You're going to a child's birthday party. You stop at a drugstore and buy a
card that, when opened, plays happy birthday. The kid's grandparents bought
him the game system called Playstation, and his parents are
videotaping the party.
The home video camera they use to take pictures of the party contains more
processing power than an IBM 360, the wonder machine that gave birth to the
mainframe computer age.
The Playstation game system runs on a higher -performance processor than the
original 1976 Cray super computer, which in its day was accessible to only
the most elite physicists.
And when somebody throws away your little musical birthday card during the
clean-up, they are disposing of more machine processing power than existed
in the entire world before 1950.
Something to think about...
Tony