Re: Print to SHR

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On Mar 6, 12:28 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> While Moore's "Law" has pretty much petered out for improvements
> of single-thread processor performance,

When did the 2.5Ghz come out?  It seems like there have been ZERO
speed improvements in the last ?5? years.

I have an article that I snipped out of the ?SanFrancisco Chronicle?
around
1999...  "Motorola introduces super-fast CPU" or something like that.
They
claimed 75Ghz.  I'm pretty sure we had 2.0ghz available at the time.

>the hard disk guys continue
> to out-run Moore with density and speed improvements.

It seems to me that reliability has gone down.  I haven't owned a ton
of
the new big drives, but I have had 2 40GB, 1 80 GB go bad on me in the
last 4 years.


> If it weren't for massive consolidation and the cost reductions
> that come from economies of scale, things would be even dryer in
> silicon valley.


I read another article about speedup of CPU's...  The entire
motherboard
circuitry was on a chip.  The chip was glued to the board (non-
upgradeable)
There were fewer bus speed restrictions, because the bus is in the
chip.

I wonder when we'll get these?

If any of you guys want a speedup, try installing windows 98 on your
hard
drive..  Install WindowsXP after, and it'll be dual boot.  Windows 98
FLYS
on a 2ghz machine.  Feels like an Apple II with an accelerator does..

I like Applewin..  Hold the Scroll Lock key and compiling things in
merlin
goes QUICK..

I often reach for the Scroll Lock key when using XP...  Too bad turbo
doesn't work in it :-)


Rich