__/ [Marcus Fox] on Thursday 12 January 2006 03:30 \__
> Watching a rather old documentary where they all have weird haircuts and
> all the equipment looks like it came from a 70's sci fi movie. The
> scientist is explaining his six feet computer. "This is the world's most
> powerful computer. It can process 100 million calculations per second", he
> says. By this I take it he means 100 MHz. Can anyone estimate for me the
> approximate year when this was the top of the range processor?
>
> Marcus
The number of clock cycles does not proportionally relate to the number of
calculations. What do they mean by an "instruction"? What type of instruc-
tion? What complexity and cost does it have ? How many bits does it have,
thus how expressive is it?
If it were a 100 MHz computer that's most powerful, you would possibly be
looking at the early 80's or late 70's?? For home computing, 100 MHz prob-
ably came about with the Pentiums in the early 90's, maybe 1992.
Roy
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