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To: AndrewC
You skipped an excercise.

Count the transistors in your new machine and divide by the cost.

Hint:
A CPU has over 1,000,000 transistors,
64K of dram memory has ~70,000,
64K of sram has ~ 270,000 transistors,
Add a million or so for "glue" - modems, video cards, math chips, etc.

Lets say you bought a small system ~2,000,000 transistors. And you paid way too much - $2,000.00

That's 0.1¢ per transistor - assuming the monitor, case plastic, wires, circuit boards, assembly and shipping are all free...

736 posted on 05/09/2003 9:22:46 AM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
You skipped an excercise

Sure, because it is pointless.

P.S. You need an update on your facts.

Each Pentium 4 processor chip has 512K of performance-enhancing level-two cache, 55 million transistors, and advanced (SSE2) multimedia instructions.

737 posted on 05/09/2003 9:27:39 AM PDT by AndrewC
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