[Uri’el-2012]

It’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?

Some things change but the overarching concepts do not.

I currently have more computing power on my desk
than we had in our BL data center 25 years ago.

Todays computing stands on the shoulders of the giants of the past.

OBTW I "Protein Fold" w/ SMP about 3000 points a day and
it does not affect any process on my Mac as it is "niced"

[supercat]

I currently have more computing power on my desk than we had in our BL data center 25 years ago.

In 1977, an Atari 2600 video game cartridge contained 2K (bytes) of code, which would run on a system with 128 bytes of RAM and a processor running about 0.3-0.5 MIPS, and display hardware which couldn't even generate vertical sync unless the processor turned the vertical-sync latch on for two scan lines out of every 262.

In 2007, video games have grown in size and RAM requirements over a million-fold, and in speed requirements over ten-thousand-fold. Unfortunately, the "fun" level hasn't grown so much.