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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Goals, Cost, and Flexibility (was Re: "Training" of programmers)
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 02:29:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.022940.12771@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <JAN.92Sep12155439@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <9225808.14389@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <BuJnA9.JCA@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <BuJnA9.JCA@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rubin Herman) writes:
- >In article <9225808.14389@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
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- [Microcoding Effort vx. CPU speed doubling]
-
- >This doubling is for the minis and micros, which are finding it possible to
- >come closer to the speeds of fast mainframes. The speed improvement from
- >the CRAY 1 to their latest machines is more in using multiple processors,
- >but this will eventually run into physical limits. The switching time has
- >only tripled in a dozen years; there may be breakthroughs, but another 20
- >doublings may very well reach basic physical limits in size, speed, and
- >number of processors.
-
- Oh, Oh, Now you've done it. You told some hot shot engineer He can't
- make the machine run faster. Of course they'll prove you wrong if they
- throw enough money at it. It wouldn't suprise me in the least to be
- buying 2 Ghz CPU's in 5 years. The days of anything but
- "microprocessors" are gone. Takes too long for the 'lectric to come off
- the chip. All future CPU's will be fabricated on the same silicon.
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