From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 23 21:42:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07603 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 21:42:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles167.castles.com [208.214.165.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07598 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 21:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA03808; Sat, 23 May 1998 20:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805240338.UAA03808@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "stjerneby@usa.net" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 02:54:23 +0200." <35676FBF.9DF8E163@usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 20:38:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The typical Athena workstation is roughly a ''3M'' machine; that is; it > has a 1 million-instructions-per-second processor, a megapixel (1000 x > 1000) display, and three or four megabytes of memory. It also has a > mouse, a local disk (typically 30-70 megabytes), and an Ethernet network > interface. > (..) > ** > > This was around ~1988. > > Again, there's some dimension-twisting here. A fairly decent graphics > display, and networking, yet fairly low on disk- and memory resources > compared to current hardware. The actual hardware consisted of > MicroVAXen and VAXstations. Anyone who would call a DEQNA "fairly decent networking" has rocks in their head. There's a lovely quote from Van Jacobsen about using a DEQNA as a slow packet source... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message