One-upsmanship

From: Andy Holt <andyh_at_andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri Apr 19 10:11:18 2002

> Analog computers get (if not mechanical) a rather
> low Zuse number (still way above any modern machine),
> since they usualy are of small footprint, not very
> heavy and not realy power consuming ...

ever seen an EAI 8900 (I think that was the model)?
small, not heavy, not power consuming are all somewhat inaccurate for that

Even a 680 was somewhat larger than a PDP11/20 of similar era

Andy
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 10:11:18 BST