Need Info on DEC 11/84 Board, M8190

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Oct 19 10:44:59 1998

At 04:19 PM 10/18/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
>
>Has anyone read the book "Innumeracy"? It mostly deals with debunking
>the concept of probability, but it is interesting in other respects,
>too.

Yes, it's delightful. Paulos taught at the university I attended,
although I wasn't in his classes.

> BTW, would you say 'kilobyte' is a misnomer? THe number it
>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?

What drives me crazy are the marketroids who round-up twice
in order to inflate the capacity of hard drives.

At 07:49 PM 10/18/98 -0400, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>Of course, real relays much smaller than a cubic inch are readily available,
>and a real computer of that density would have incredible cooling
>problems.

And you'd need to emulate all the RAM and ROM that's on-chip on a CPU, too.
Do you think they count that when they count transistors?

- John
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