Posted on 06/14/2018 11:04:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Lotus Notes still won’t work right.
200,000 trillion calculations per secondIsnt that 200 quadrillion calculations per second? or are we going by the British trillion?
Nano-Nano.....................
Sweet! Now the NSA will be able to spy on the whole world in real-time!
I’m only moderately impressed when computers are made faster by creating a larger “committee” of individual processors.
The challenge with these committees is connecting the individual processors together.
ElectricPencil screams on this baby.
It’s been more than 15 years since I have used an IBM product. Heck, I thought they hade nearly vanished.
My first and only computer that I learned to program FORTRAN 1962
The following is the text of an IBM Data Processing Division press technical fact sheet distributed on October 4, 1960.
The solid-state IBM 7090 is the most powerful data processing system now coming off production lines at International Business Machines Corporation. The fully-transistorized system has computing speeds six times faster than those of its vacuum-tube predecessor, the IBM 709, and seven and one-half times faster than those of the IBM 704. Announced in December, 1958, the first 7090 was installed in December, 1959.
My first and only computer that I learned to program FORTRAN 1962
The following is the text of an IBM Data Processing Division press technical fact sheet distributed on October 4, 1960.
The solid-state IBM 7090 is the most powerful data processing system now coming off production lines at International Business Machines Corporation. The fully-transistorized system has computing speeds six times faster than those of its vacuum-tube predecessor, the IBM 709, and seven and one-half times faster than those of the IBM 704. Announced in December, 1958, the first 7090 was installed in December, 1959.
I still have a mid 1990’s vintage IBM desktop. Not windows/I10 worthy but still runs early excel, the grandson’s games plus picture storage. With Chinese espionage, I would not trust products from Lenovo, who took over IBM’s personal computer business. IBM has always been strong on systems, just not consumer products..
What does Netview say about it (while running on my TN3270 emulator to pull VTAM statistics)?
Not only are these machines getting more powerful, they're getting smaller.
Brings back memories. I started with Cobol and Autocoder on the 7010 in the late 60’s just before the 360’s came in.
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I started with FORTRAN IV on a Cray 6400, moved to a Cray 6600, then 7600. This was 1966 to 1973.
“Not only are these machines getting more powerful, they’re getting smaller.”
Smaller equals faster — yes.
Are they running at higher clock speeds? I.e. are gate delays getting smaller?
“Not only are these machines getting more powerful, they’re getting smaller.”
Smaller equals faster — yes.
Are they running at higher clock speeds? I.e. are gate delays getting smaller?
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