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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Delivering Power
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Date: 14 Dec 90 19:18:15 GMT
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In article <11334@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:

>I found this particularly apt, since I had in my hand a brochure on
>the ITT DataWave chip. This is intended to go into consumer HDTV
>sets, will cost $30-$40, and it does 4000 MOPS. A quick rummage came
>up with the C-Cube CL550 JPEG Image Compression Processor, which will
>do 9400 MOPS. (And it only does NTSC TV in real time - HDTV requires
>four CL550's in parallel.)
......
>
>I have more compute power in my wristwatch than Eniac had. In a
>decade, the average household may have a million times more.

Humm, so you could network a couple of TVs and a digital audio sound system,
instead of purchasing a real parallel processing computer? Hummmm. Use the
toaster to handle disk I/O, and the blender to handle print queues and you have
a hot backup site for work....but I don't think any of them will have SCSI
ports...
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