Re: Observation about group

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 14 Dec 2001 21:02:21 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>The hardware capability has increased exponentially, but I did slip
>a decimal point--the compound annual growth rate is about 60%, so
>the increase is a factor of 100, not 1000, in ten years.  My error.
>But we have had twenty years, so the cumulative growth is now
>a factor of 10,000, or four orders of magnitude.

Well, that still doesn't quite work out because we would have to have
at least 10 GHz processors now for that to hold true as we have 1 MHz
processors 20 years ago.  In fact, we had 1 MHz processors in the
Apple computer in 1977 which was 24 years ago.  :-)

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