Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 20:38:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "stjerneby@usa.net" <stjerneby@usa.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) Message-ID: <199805240338.UAA03808@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 02:54:23 %2B0200." <35676FBF.9DF8E163@usa.net>
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> 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
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