"Robert Redelmeier" <redelm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:teDUj.15180$V14.14875@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In alt.lang.asm Terry Russell <trochilus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> part:
>> 3 cents buys 1 megaclock per second hardware, one time cost, forever
>> the real cost is in the 4 microcents it takes to power it for a
second.
>
> 4 microcents is a typical US price for one Joule of
> electricity (one watt for one second). However, a
> modern CPU is only 0.02 W/MHz or 0.02 J/Mclock
>
> The total marginal cost of computation therefore
> is only 80 femtocents/clock ($0.80e-15/clock)
>
> Even at $1/hr, usertime is 100x more valuable. Whence
> the desireability of MS-Windows and other eyecandy.
I was working on OZ prices and total box dissipation, just for the
pro****tion rather
than to be exact, constantly ****fting goalposts :-)
Which just illustrates how rubbery cpu clock ticks as a metric of
efficiency are :-)
$1-2000 to sup****t a box on a business destop for a year, $50,000+
for the person using it, and the business plan goes short on a $1,000
hardware upgrade.
Back 18 years and 16 mhz = about 4 megops cost $3600
what was $1,000 then , quick thumb = $2200 now , nowadays can be had for
3
cents
Back then a few ticks really cost.
1,000 times faster, 1,000 times the ram and faster and wider with it,
10,000 the disk, for 1/6 the price in real terms
the rules have changed
So what do we have planned for the 10gig/ 10 gig ram/1 terra disk boxes?
sameold sameold with new wallpaper and the same old navel fluff?
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