louboutn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Sylvain Louboutin, University College Dublin) (05/07/91)
Many papers explain new trends in the evolution of operating systems, from huge monolithic systems to loosely coupled distributed systems, by the increase in the ratio power/cost of workstations. But so far I haven't seen any actual figures. What I am looking for would be lists of prices along with an estimation of performance (e.g. MIPS for what it's worth) of different kinds of hardware ranging from workstations to mainframes at different periods e.g. 60s, 70s, 80s and now. Thanks in advance, -- --Sylvain R.Y. Louboutin fax: (+353-1) 697262 --Dept. of Computer Science, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4, -Ireland- --Louboutin@CCVAX.UCD.IE, SLOUBH91@IRLEARN.BITNET