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[Andrew Dalke]

Alex:
> We _are_ talking about more than 20 years ago, after all (and I'm
> sure none of those designers could possibly dream that their numbers
> had to be chosen, not for ONE computer model, but for models that
> would span 15 or more turns of Moore Law's wheel...!_).

I am hoping for symbolic reasons that in another couple of years it
will be possible to buy a 4.77 GHz processor.  Then place it
side-by-side with an original PC and gape at the differences.  1000x
clock speed (and 100,000x performance?), 200,000x more
memory, 1,000,000x more disk space.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com