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From: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Speed Kills (long)
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Date: 12 Jun 90 12:33:54 GMT
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From article <447@garth.UUCP>, by fouts@bozeman.ingr.com (Martin Fouts):
> 
> A) Some apparently random thoughts:
> 
>	. . . 
> 
> F) Don't flame?
> 
>    Before you decide to attack the "nothing new under the sun"
>    premise, consider your computer history very carefully.  In
>    operating systems, languages, networking, and programming
>    environments, I can find 15 to 20 year old systems which between
>    them had all of the features you are going to think up.  (Including
>    networks and multiprocessors.)
> 
>    The only thing you are going to be able to point out as
>    advances are speed, cost, and some kinds of 3d graphics.
> 
> 

Thanks for a good article.

Lots of interesting points, and, of course, a nit to pick.  Quantity (speed)
affects quality.  If you can do something 1000 times faster than you could
before it makes a tremendous difference in what is practical and in how the
tools are used.














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