[plug] Quotable quote: meet in the middle

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:42:16PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
[...]
> If the rest of the computer follows suit, you'll be looking at a
> K6-II-300/64M/8G for about three or four bucks. Plus Windows 2008 for
> about $500. The lid of your pizza box will probably be a Linux-based
> flexible ultra-bright active-matrix plastic display trying hard to sell
> you your next pizza. (-:

FWIW, what you can currently buy for three or four bucks is a low end
PIC microcontroller, such as an 8 pin 12C509. 1K of one-time-programmable
memory, 41 bytes of RAM, six I/O pins and power.  About a couple of orders
of magnitude faster than ENIAC (1 000 000 additions/second versus 5 000
additions per second). Not bad for 50 years of progress.

I hope to be playing with these a bit more in coming months.

Nick.

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