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I saw a reference to MIPS and started wondering about how fast my mac-mini is to what the old Honeywell 6000 mainframe I used to program in the 70's and found this chart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second
What is remarkable is that even the Raspberry-PI has a MIPS rating that would blow away the IBM System 370 of 1972 (comparable to Honeywell's 6000 series). It seems this would be a great plot device for a sci-fi novel.
Small timeline my human-computer interactions:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second
What is remarkable is that even the Raspberry-PI has a MIPS rating that would blow away the IBM System 370 of 1972 (comparable to Honeywell's 6000 series). It seems this would be a great plot device for a sci-fi novel.
Small timeline my human-computer interactions:
Code:
GE Timesharing: GE 600 programming in BASIC and timesharing Fortran
Honeywell 6080 programming in Fortran-Y, Cobol and Macro Assembler with EIS
and TEX scripts (my favorite)Commodore 64 programming in Basic and ForthIBM PC/XT Intel 8086 CPU 640K memory 360K diskette 10MB HD PC-DOS 3
programming in C/C++ with Lattice C
(often used as a clock on some desks)IBM PC-AT Intel 286 with PC-DOS programming in C/C++ with Turbo C/C++ and Turbo Prolog
IBM PS/2 Intel 386 with OS/2 programming C/C++
IBM PC/RT IBM/Motorola RISC with AIX "
IBM RISC/6000 with IBM AIX " Lenovo X400 Laptop with WinNT programming in Java
Apple Macbook Pro with MacOSX programming in Java and Groovy
Apple Mac-Mini programming in Java, Groovy and python and numerous others
scala, clojure...Raspberry-PI programming in python