John Foust wrote:
>
> It would be interesting to attempt to graph the MIPS/VUP/MIPS/Whetstones/etc.
> of ancient and contemporary computers, using some approximation of
> comparable units. It would be fun to recognize that, say, one of
> my old computers was just as fast as an IBM AT, but was available
> five years before.
Part of that was demonstrable _then_, albeit subjectively. Format a
standard Tandon or whatever 20 MB disk from the bare oxide on an AT
and on a TRS-80 Model 4. The results will surprise you. (With an XT
the difference was much more ludicrous. I'm told the same applies
with a Color Computer, but hooking up a hard drive is damned near the
only thing I've never done with one. (The inflatable party doll
Program Pak interface is _still_ in Beta test.) 8-)}
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Thu Jan 08 1998 - 20:22:42 GMT