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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/07/2016 10:47 PM, Jon Doezal
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<div dir="ltr">Not just any phone, a microphone.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:08 PM,
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android phone in my pocket fit on this chart?<br>
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</span>Psh, that's a phone not a computer, silly.<span
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<div class="h5">On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:57 PM,
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<div>On 02/07/2016 07:52 PM, david wrote:<br>
> Nits to pick:<br>
> Computers:<br>
> mainframe -- huge, multi-million
dollar dinosaurs that have 1 to few<br>
> processors but engineered to serve
thousands of ($$$) terminals and<br>
> designed to centralize data and
functions. Examples IBM, Unisys,
Honeywell;<br>
> mini-computer -- washing machine
sized computers, mostly for engineering<br>
> departments. examples DEC PDP 8, PDP
11, Wang mini's, and so on. Cost<br>
> tens of thousands of dollars and up;<br>
> micro-computers -- desktop machines
originally designed for<br>
> single-person computing, but boy, did
it grow up! Cost around $1,000<br>
> and up;<br>
> Now, we have what I term the
pico-computers (to follow the name
history)<br>
> -- mostly designed as embedded
device, grew into system-on-chip capable<br>
> of handling some desktop functions as
long as they are not<br>
> comute-intensive. Cost $5 to a few
hundred, with peripherals covering a<br>
> wide spectrum.<br>
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> What's next? A nano-comuter (quantum
machines?) Interfaces to humans<br>
> still gonna cost the same as all
tiers but the (outdated) mainframe.<br>
> Capable of enormous compute power,
memory requirements/accomodations<br>
> will be phenomenally large.<br>
><br>
> Meaningless historical trivia: The
IBM PC was designed as a *terminal*<br>
> only, for their mainframes and the
IBM engineers and marketers had<br>
> deduced it was incapable of operating
as a stand-alone computer.<br>
> Follow-on trivia: in 1983, I designed
and installed a network of PC's in<br>
> a department in a nuclear power
plant, for purposes of database,<br>
> record-keeping, and some
compute-intensive jobs. When IBM came out
and<br>
> examined what I had done, they turned
white as a sheet and said, out<br>
> loud and to the room, "This is
impossible." And after the PC has<br>
> already established itself as a
capable (sort of) stand-alone office<br>
> computer. Yet it worked for many
years. My OS of choice at that time<br>
> was QNX, a variant of UNIX, of
course.<br>
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> David Merchant<br>
> Man, how I do ramble sometimes.<br>
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David,<br>
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Where does the quad core android phone in my
pocket fit on this chart?<br>
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#matt<br>
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