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     Kommentar till en text av PAUL ROGERS
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-=> PAUL ROGERS wrote to MAURICE KINAL <=-

 MK> Right.  I like those too but not as much as 486's and
 MK> definetly not as much as P-III's, either 100 and/or 133 fsb
 MK> ones.  P-III's are good methinks.

 PR> Well, the new Conroe/DUO processors are abandoning the Xeon
 PR> route and going back to P-III cores, I guess.  I think
 PR> experience shows the multiple cores idea isn't the answer
 PR> on performance, even Classic Pentiums were too fast for
 PR> everything off-chip.  I wish iNTEL would go back to the
 PR> 486/Pentium chips with the new 65-90nm processes, making a
 PR> flood of tiny, cheap, low-powered chips on the 12" wafers.
 PR> However, I'd like to see them integrate (all?) chipset/MoBo
 PR> functions into the CPU, reducing the MoBo's chip count as
 PR> much as possible, enabling "pervasive computing".  Instead
 PR> of pinning-out a bus, do (subtract at least 2 from all these
 PR> common numbers for power/ground & N/C's) 5 pins for KB, 15
 PR> for video, 5 for mouse, 9, 9, & 25 for serial/parallel, add
 PR> a few for sound, a few for NIC, and a few for SATA, USB, or
 PR> Firewire.  They already cache enough RAM.  Heck, you could
 PR> almost go back to a 40-pin DIP like the 8080!  You could
 PR> have a full computer on a tiny board limited by the need for
 PR> peripheral connectors.  Ever since my S/360 days I've
 PR> opposed the way hardware improvements have been eaten-up by
 PR> code.  What we can run on a 486 or Pentium is good enough
 PR> for most NEEDS.  Been there.  Done that.  I think it's
 PR> better to provide basic computing to a very wide market than
 PR> cater to the gamer's need for speed to simulate a world that
 PR> already exists.  (Wanna play football?  Forget Madden, get a
 PR> ball and some buddies and go run around!)

Heh.
Even my old Packard Bell 486 ran RMCOBOL which by the time it took
the robot in Temple Terrace across the bay to seek and load the tape
outpaced the big iron IBM 360
Plus as the big iron time was donated and GTE was the biggest
data processing center in the S.E. U.S.  we weren't exactly at the top
of the que.
COBOL, bleck, too wordy.
Still I reworked all my working storage sections of my programs
for both 120 column printers and 80 column PC.

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