a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) (01/16/90)
In <3300093@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, nelson@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >I truly believe that the demand for faster and faster PCs will slow > down quite a bit in the next few years. > >Personally, for nearly all PC applications, I think that a 386 system >is more than enough and most of the demand comes from people who don't > need the power at all, > Umm. This depends upon where you think up is. #define Inspirational_mode on "While today's digital hardware is extremely impressive, it is clear that the human retina's real time performance goes unchallenged. Actually to simulate 10 milliseconds of the complete processing of even a single nerve cell from the retina would require the solution of about 500 simultaneous nonlinear differential equations 100 times and would take at least several minutes of time on a Cray supercomputer. Keeping in mind that there are 10 million or more such cells interacting with each other in complex ways, it would take a minimum of 100 years of Cray time to simulate what takes place in your eye many times each second." - John K. Stevens Byte, Page 287, April 1985, Reverse Engineering the Brain #define ah leave it on... "Never imply that you would be willing to sacrifice profit for market share. - IBM's lawyers' advice to its executives" -Big Blue:IBM's Use & Abuse of Power by Richard T. Delamarter Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.UUCP