I’m still trying to figure out how a cell phone has more processing power than the Lunar Module.
It boggles the mind that today you can run an entire manned mission to the moon using a laptop. Ok, maybe 2 laptops.
True enough, but much of that processing power today is committed to useless tasks. I wonder if my i5 laptop could run the batch processing of the Honeywell 500 (?) machine that I worked with 30 years ago, and it certainly couldn’t do with the Win 7 OS the work of an Alpha DEC machine of 15 years ago, that was serving a couple of hundred terminals, two dozen printers and a good amount of batch processing. That’s to keep in mind. Our laptops, each on its own, are single user machines. Am I wrong?
how bout this one...
a current model scientific programmable calculator has more processing power and memory than a commodore 64 personal computer or the first mac.