On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
> If one were to estimate the number of transistors in a penitum II
> at 100 million (?), then if an exchange has ~three relays per number,
More like a little more than a 1 million. With a 100 million transistor
CPU I could rule the world!!!
> signifies isn't 10^3, it's 2^10. For a feeble attempt to get back on
> topic: was kilobyte always accepted as 1024 bytes?
When I was learning, I always took 1K to be 1024 bytes, which is the
correct measure (as far as I'm concerned). Thus, a 64K computer is 65536
bytes, for instance (65536 / 1204 = 64);
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