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Smoke Crack and Worship Satan

More options Dec 18 1995, 3:00 am

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From: m...@aplace.com (Smoke Crack and Worship Satan)

Date: 1995/12/18

Subject: Re: Micro$oft marketing hype.. (Was Re: NT vs Unix - Digial to merge VMS,NT)

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In article <DJnA9w....@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jw...@avery.med.Virginia.EDU

(James W. Adams) wrote:

> An interesting footnote here is that the present situation has developed
> during a rapid expansion in computing power. Given that progress in CPU
> speed may soon be slowed as the limits of present fab processes are
> felt, conditions will doubtless favor a markedly different set of
> tradeoffs in program development.

Are you kidding? I don't see Intel, Motorola, Digital et al hitting the wall anytime soon.
I'd say the current state of affairs-- a doubling of power every 18 months-- will stay in
effect until at least 2005. And here's my estimation of the average PC then:

266 Mhz Pentium Pro, 512k on-chip L2 cache
A true 32-bit OS that runs Win32 API apps
PCI video card with 4MB fast video RAM and dedicated 2D/3D acceleration
32MB EDO-style memory
4GB hard drive
10-12x HD-CDROM read/write drive
100+MB floppy drive (Zip or its kin)

And I think it'll cost $2,000.

Pretty cool, eh? Hard to imagine the software that would run slowly on that machine. But
then that's what they said about the 386, 486, Pentium, etc.

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