On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> An amazingly strange and irrelevant distinction!
>
> Where was the mass storage interface of a 360 physically located? The
> disk drives were NOT in the same box as the CPU.
>
> I sincerely doubt that putting the disk controller inside or outside the
> CPU box has any significant effect on the Zuse number of the computer.
Speaking of which, the Zuse factor formula was officially proposed today
at VCF Europa 3.0. I've created a PHP script that computes your
computer's Zuse factor. It's still in Beta mode, but will work for the
most part.
http://www.vintage.org/features/zuse.php
The larger your number, the cooler or more classic your computer. Modern
computers, and even micros from the 1980s, will come up with a very small
number (1E-9 or smaller). I'm working on adding prefixes such as "micro",
"nano", "pico" etc. instead of just outputting a puny number.
If you don't like the formula, blame Hans, but it does seem to work for
the most part.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 11:34:22 BST