Contributed by jj on from the moore-memory dept.
10 | 6.7% (71 votes) | ||
100 | 11.9% (127 votes) | ||
1,000 | 25.0% (266 votes) | ||
10,000 | 18.3% (195 votes) | ||
100,000 | 12.1% (129 votes) | ||
1,000,000 | 10.2% (109 votes) | ||
10,000,000 | 3.8% (40 votes) | ||
100,000,000 | 3.1% (33 votes) | ||
1,000,000,000 | 3.3% (35 votes) | ||
10,000,000,000 | 5.5% (59 votes) | ||
Total votes: 1064
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By Me (202.7.166.164) on
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By old timer (149.254.200.220) on
meh, same ratio here though I started with 1k (ZX81) and now have whopping 256Mb (800Mhz P3 laptop). I guess I could upgrade but then I already did double the RAM a couple of years ago and find it plenty..
By Sean Comeau (207.230.254.106) on http://seancomeau.com/
First box: 2MB, current box: 16384MB
That's getting close to 10 thousand times more.
By Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd (84.75.111.32) weerd@weirdnet.nl on http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Processor speed went from 1MHz to 6GHz (counting both cores separately), showing only a 6K fold increase.
Disk size, on the other hand, went from 0 bytes of storage in the PET to 1TB in my current machine. Infinite growth ! ;)
By Anonymous Coward (76.250.126.209) on
http://oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html
an a zx spectrum 16k
By 3todd (69.219.224.67) on
By Mike Erdely (merdely) mike@erdelynet.com on http://erdelynet.com/
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By sthen (85.158.45.32) on
Since your first computer, your xterm now has this many times the number of columns:
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By Mike Erdely (merdely) on http://erdelynet.com/
>
> Since your first computer, your xterm now has this many times the number of columns:
>
> ( ) 0.25x
> ( ) 0.5x
> ( ) 1x
> ( ) 2.5x
> ( ) 5x
> (x) 7.5x
> ( ) 10x
> ( ) It just had lamps you insensitive clod
lol... 6x here.
By Magnus Holmberg (mho) undeadly@mho.nu on
(C-64 -> Athlon BE-2400 with 4GB DDR2 ECC)
- mho
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By Magnus Holmberg (mho) on
> (C-64 -> Athlon BE-2400 with 4GB DDR2 ECC)
(Does this mean my memory is now square? :-))
- mho
By Anonymous Coward (216.68.198.1) on
As to the other who had a commodore PET, I use to type sys1000, could make the bell ring constantly and other wierd carshes with differnt # that I have forgotten. We use to use a simple time loop before computer class, people came in, bell was stuck on, and some didn't know how to escape it. Was funny! Primative hacks back then.
I currently use an old 1999 450MHZ laptop with only 256M ram, works well on OpenBSD. X runs, but I only use lynx. Old laptops have the best keyboards, and a big square type screen, not the short wide screen crap of today. I can get 6 hours on the dual battery option, although only down to 1 good battery now, 3 hours tops, isn't too bad.
By Brad (216.138.195.228) brad at comstyle dot com on
By Marc Espie (213.41.185.88) espie@openbsd.org on
Of course my first exposure to computers was before that (Texas Instruments TI 57), but I don't know how the instructions were encoded. 50 instructions + 8 registers + stack. Now, how much memory was in there ?
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By Anonymous Coward (213.84.21.112) on
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> Of course my first exposure to computers was before that (Texas Instruments TI 57), but I don't know how the instructions were encoded. 50 instructions + 8 registers + stack. Now, how much memory was in there ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-57
I presume 64-128 byte, let's say 100?
I had an HP-41CV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-41_Extension_Module
± 400-2000 bytes.
Now 2GB, so 1.000.000 times as much...
By Ray Lai (210.22.83.146) ray@cyth.net on http://cyth.net/~ray/
Am I the only one whose first computer had RAM in megabytes?
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By Dan Barowy (38.113.22.50) on
By al (78.36.194.31) on
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By shef (78.37.241.242) on
I was the owner of ZX Spectrum 48K.
By Anonymous Coward (69.226.226.63) on
Current machine has 4 gigs, roughly 65,000 times, so I voted 100,000 as that's the closest magnitude.
By Anonymous Coward (151.136.100.2) on
i mean 2^34 / 2^16 is not and integral power of 10...
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By Miod Vallat (miod) on
> i mean 2^34 / 2^16 is not and integral power of 10...
C'm'on, it's obvious those numbers were hex.
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By Janne Johansson (jj) on Old amiga fart.
> > i mean 2^34 / 2^16 is not and integral power of 10...
>
> C'm'on, it's obvious those numbers were hex.
Then again, we know you want an entry for "less than 10". ;)
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By Anonymous Coward (88.217.158.50) on
> > > i mean 2^34 / 2^16 is not and integral power of 10...
> >
> > C'm'on, it's obvious those numbers were hex.
>
> Then again, we know you want an entry for "less than 10". ;)
less than 10 is only 1...
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By Miod Vallat (miod) on
> > > > i mean 2^34 / 2^16 is not and integral power of 10...
> > >
> > > C'm'on, it's obvious those numbers were hex.
> >
> > Then again, we know you want an entry for "less than 10". ;)
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> less than 10 is only 1...
Only in binary.
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By Anonymous Coward (88.217.158.50) on
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> Only in binary.
ok. in trinary there is also 2.
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By Anonymous Coward (212.12.58.126) on
> >
> > Only in binary.
>
> ok. in trinary there is also 2.
which, as we all now, is only a placeholder for very large values of 1
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By Anonymous Coward (151.136.100.2) on
> > >
> > > Only in binary.
> >
> > ok. in trinary there is also 2.
>
> which, as we all now, is only a placeholder for very large values of 1
well. in war times it may even reach values of four
By Anonymous Coward (88.217.158.50) on
not obvious at all -- hex has commas every 4 zeros and not 3!
it could've been binary with octal-placed commas though perhaps...
but would also start with a zero!
By Anonymous Coward (38.113.22.50) on
By Terrell Prude' Jr. (151.188.18.42) tprude@cmosnetworks.com (this is a spamtrap address) on http://www.cmosnetworks.com/
Now, my fastest computer is a dual Athlon MP box with 3.5GB DRAM. The next most powerful one is a Power Mac G4 (dual 1.3GHz CPU's, 2GB DRAM). It, too, is quite fast. And yes, both of these, as with all of my computers, run Free Software. It's currently a mixture of GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, and ReactOS.
But I have to say that the hardware improvement that I appreciate most is the display technology, especially the LCD screen. Those are such an improvement over the original IBM CGA displays that it's not even comparable. The difference is astounding.
--TP
--Microsoft-Free Since 2003!
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By Martin Hein (80.243.113.8) on
Since 1993!
Just realizing im getting old.
First machine was a 6501 CPU with 1/2Kb RAM, 6*7 segment led display and a HEX keyboard. My father built it. After some experimentation it was used to control the heating of the home.
Later it was replaced with a VAX 780/11. But other people owned that one.
/Martin
By cdp_xe (217.94.205.218) on http://doomed-reality.org
Commodore Amiga 500: 512 kByte (7.14 MHz) -> 1 gb ram (1.8 ghz) = 2048.
But I used to programm a 8051 microcontroller at work with 16 kbytes of ram (afair). this gives us:
1024M / 16 k = 65.536. har! now I can click '10.000'.
By Steffen Wendzel (217.94.205.218) on http://doomed-reality.org
say one has NOW a 4 Terra Byte large super cool monster machine what are 4.398.046.511.104 Bytes. If you div it trough 10,000,000,000 you get only 439 bytes. But amazing 6.1% of all asked people clicked it???
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By Anonymous Coward (70.169.167.212) on
Any MCSE, of course! :-)
>
> say one has NOW a 4 Terra Byte large super cool monster machine what are 4.398.046.511.104 Bytes. If you div it trough 10,000,000,000 you get only 439 bytes. But amazing 6.1% of all asked people clicked it???
>
Now, now...you're making sense, that is expressly against regulations! :-D
Probably some of the old-timers who worked on systems with 512 bytes of DRAM might be able to click it. However, that's still kinda pushing it, since then they'd need 4 TB of DRAM today! Hmm...maybe old-timers at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in California, USA, then...I understand they've been dealing with 1000-CPU clusters and terabytes of data for a while.
Oh, and of course that comprises 6.1% of OpenBSD users! :-D
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By Miod Vallat (miod) on
By Anonymous Coward (24.161.244.118) on
By Blake (62.4.77.94) on
By Allan (24.68.59.30) on
Back in that era, with no hardware multiply support, it was easily many hundreds of clock cycles to compute a single precision floating point multiply or divide. I estimate that old TRS-80 at about 10 KFLOPS. Cell achieves something close to 250 GFLOPS. Clock frequency might not have changed by a factor of 1,000,000 but if you look at it more closely, in many instances performance has scaled as much as memory has.
IIRC I had the data sheets for an 8008 circa 1975 for an 8008 with a price of CDN$295. It seemed quite daunting to me in junior high, with the requirement for three power supplies and multiple clock phases, back when you were more than likely to kill a CMOS device by touching it without a ground strap. It was a long three years before I actually touched my first microcomputer. The complexities of too little have since given way to the complexities of too much.
By Josh Grosse (josh) josh@jggimi.homeip.net on
By Anonymous Coward (71.255.109.79) on
Memory in abaci can't really be expressed in bytes, since it stores data in base one. The highest number you could figure with it (using all the memory) was about 60 or so. My current machine can store the number 255 549,755,813,888 times, less space for the operating system (which I never used to have to worry about).