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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3361892, member: 27832&quot;]The centerpiece of that computing center where I worked was a CDC Cyber 7600, with a peak speed of 30-odd million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS), and somewhere between 3 and 4 megabytes of RAM. It didn&#039;t take up a whole room, it <b>WAS</b> a room -- it was C-shaped, and the field service guys (who were there full-time) used the area inside it as a closet for their stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compare that to the 512 megabytes of RAM and 400-odd MFLOPS of the Apple... <i>Watch</i>. And not even the <i>current</i> Apple Watch, but the first edition from three years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>We used to chuckle a bit at Moore&#039;s Law (computer power doubles every 24 months, give or take), because if you took it thirty or forty years into the future, it said our whole room full of equipment would fit into the palm of your hand. Chuckle. Chuckle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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