Re: Computers and power usage
In reply to #6323 Computers and power usage. by Goldman of Chaos -- postmaster CRI-US
[email removed] (Goldman of Chaos -- postmaster CRI-US) writes: > I used to think that the power consumption and size of the computers > was really out of line. Then I started working for Cray Research. > > Really fast machines with about the same floor space requirements and > power consumption as Classic Traveller computers. We're not talking > about Macintoshes and PC clones you plug into the wall after all. Not yet. ;-) Remember that the sort of computer which you can now put on your desk, or even in your pocket, would have taken up lots of power and floor space a couple of decades ago. > - -- > Matthew Goldman E-mail: [email removed] Work: [phone removed] > > "The DCI does not wake with a hangover and decide > to assassinate someone." -Alec Chambers "Not yet." - Me. ;-) - -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott Adrian Hurt | JANET: [email removed] UUCP: ..!uknet!cee.hw.ac.uk!adrian | ARPA: [email removed]