| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Real-Life Computing ... |
| Date: | Tue, 26 May 1998 19:02:49 -0400 |
>Thus spake Airwasp:
>>
>> For anyone wanting grins and giggles ... consider the following ...
>>
>> Intel is going to begin selling chips to the consumer market sometime in
the
>> year 2000 ...
>>
>> Their speed .... 800 MHz ...
>
> They're still a bit behind the competition. IBM, earlier this year,
>announced that they have demonstrated the first procesor that can operate
>beyond 1GHz. Digital Alpha processors have been over 600MHz (and higher)
>for some time now.
Motorola's RISC chipsets should also be in the same ballpark, since I have
little doubt they will still be in production in 2000. Actually, they may
be even faster, since Exponential Computing (which has since gone BIG
bankrupt) was announcing over a year ago that they could do 500Mhz by the
end of 97 and could push over a 1000MHz by 2000 for their Mac-based RISC
chips.
Of course, I would ask what the hell is the consumer going to do with
800Mhz of processing speed (hey, the system bus had better be whole frag of
a lot faster than it is now!), but then again, they always find new ways to
chew up a computer and make it seem slow...
Anyone remember the days when 10Mhz and a few hundred K of memory was all
anyone could ever possibly want?
> However, Intel shipping speeds like this to mass market consumers for
>somewhat reasonable prices, is important. The more power on distributed
>systems, whatever the processor, will only bring us nearer to the
>Matrix-like netowrks of the future. I'm already saving up for a datajack
>and an encephalon. :-)
Heh. Me too. But I'm also saving up for the cybereyes and the smartgun
link...
Erik J.
Who really is bent enough to actually be willing to have his perfect 20/20
eyes replaced with cybernetics...when they become good enough that is...
