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Subject: [OM] Re: [OM; now *way* OT] So digital can do it all?
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 20:23:50 -0700
At 06:59 PM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:

[snip]

Luxury, indeed! My Heathkit H-89 had SIXTEEN KILOBYTES of RAM!

Hmmmmph.  We used to *dream* of sixteen kilobytes of RAM.

I was building banks of J-K flip-flops (sort of like an Altair 8800 on a starvation diet) and linking 'em together in various configurations back in the mid-70's. Did Boolean algebra with 256 bytes of RAM. No input or output devices other than the toggle switches, jumper cables and blinkenlights. When I saw my first real personal computer (an Apple Lisa in '83 or so) I was blown away. I continue to marvel at the fact that I own a wristwatch that has more computing power than the onboard systems that sent the Apollo missions to the moon, and that you can buy (and then throw away) a greeting card with a chip inside that has more digital processing power than existed on the entire planet prior to 1952.

Yeah, *baby.*

>(Now I own a Dell that's a dedicated
>graphics workstation that has 2,048 Megs of 800 MHz DDR-SDRAM, and there
>are days when I think it's not enough and/or it's too slowwwwww...

Yea, Wintel machines are like gas engines, Macs are like diesels. I routinely work on 1.5GB images on my 400 MHz Power Mac. (It ain't the RPMs, it's the torque! :-)


It's both, really. And the horsepower. And the system bus. And... and... (tilt, tilt, tilt...). But the real leap in workflow is when you have two or more slaved together in a LAN -- I can't imagine going back to work on a single machine except for specific reasons.


Garth

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