Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 22:34:01 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Nils Holland" <nils@daemon.tisys.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The Road Ahead? Message-ID: <001701c2039d$036e3c20$22e2910c@daleco>
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Probably not the best etiquette to dredge this up, as it's a week or so old now (though it WAS an enjoyable and invigorating thread), but this just hit me, maybe because these days I'm spending more time *fixing* computers and less time *using* them... >So far about what has happened. The question, however, is what we can learn >from it. Basically, I believe that the computer industry is in serious >danger - Moore's Law seems to be self-destructing. What I mean by this? >Well, seriously, if I go to a computer shop these days, then I will find a >whole lot of hyper-fast machines, but for an ordinary user, these probably >wouldn't make much sense. If a 500 Mhz machine sits 90% idle while someone >writes a letter of surfs the web, then why should he upgrade to a 2000 Mhz >one? Maybe I'm not an ordinary user. I have a Windoze box at 475MHz, and during the process of recording and/or mixing multitrack audio, I *very often* wish for faster processors, memory, disk access, protocols, etc., etc., etc., Latency, underruns, and just sitting there while it spends 98% of its processing power doing a task....although computers can process M + MIPS, I still get bored *waiting*. Anyone who's ever built world on a Pentium 90 can relate to that, and I'm told that in many countries 'round the globe a 486DX will still bring a good price. E-mail? (or is it email?---but that's another thread)... any box'll do. But there are some valid reasons to have a "Need for speed...." Nils, if you find yourself with an extra 2GHz CPU floating around, ship it to Missouri. ;-) Coffee's on me this time, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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