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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Implications of powerful systems
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Date: 29 Mar 89 15:09:45 GMT
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In article <10167@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton) writes:
>It is sad that as machines go faster, some of the same programs
>we always used go slower.

      Also bigger.  Run "size" on, say, "ps", on a Sun.

      However, there are applications which need power well beyond what
is available today.  I have some designs for a geometry-based AI system
that will take 1000 to 10,000 MIPS.  There are simple algorithms in
early vision that take twenty minutes per frame on a Sun 4.  We need
serious MIPS to deal with the physical world.

					John Nagle