21 Dec
2019
21 Dec
'19
6:26 a.m.
On 12/20/19 10:55 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
I have heard a site (I believe it was Case Western) that had a fourth
PDP-11 serving as a communications concentrator for
more lines
(DH11's).? One shudders to think of a 20 with that many users.? Things
got pretty slow at 50 and once you got up to 70, it was time to find
something else to do.
...and my phone, with eight processors running at 2.7GHz and 4GB of
RAM, can barely keep up with just ME, typing with one or two fingers.
In this industry, we call that "progress".
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA