65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz

socram writes " Tom's Hardware posted an interesting article, describing and benchmarking 65 kinds of CPUs from 1994 to 2003. Opinions on what constitutes "adequate computing speed" vary greatly from one user to the next. While one person may be perfectly content with an old Pentium 133 system that stores stamp club membership details in a DOS program in "real-time mode", there is another group at the other end of the scale - video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes."

Comments

Hey!

[FungiSpunk]

What about the 90Mhz I got under my desk right now, doesn't that get a mention?

old theory

[RobertTaylor]

video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes.

There is an old theory to do with penis size...

For the record, I am running a 286 ;)

Re:old theory

[Anonymous Coward]

Well..

They do say it's all about how you use it that matters.

Re:old theory

[frozenray]

> There is an old theory to do with penis size...

Try this script (stolen from someones Usenet signature):

penislength.sh:

echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; \
cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep MHz|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}'; free|grep '^Mem' \
|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs | grep -v 1k \
| awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END \
{print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1cm/'

The constants in the script are probably in need of revision, since running it on my puny 350 MHz Linux box (SCSI and over 450 days uptime) rates me at a respectable 22 cm, but I'm not complaining :-). (Note: if you have one of those 3+ GHz screamers, I don't want to know the results, ok?)

Conversion to imperial units is left as an exercise to the reader.

100 MegaHertz? You were lucky!

[Burb]

(Cue Monty Python Yorkshiremen Sketch)

Prediction: This discussion will end up with someone wittering on about punch cards, paper tape, and front panel access to core memory.

Then someone else will recall the Dilbert cartoon where the engineer boasts "I made a database entirely out of zeros because we had no ones".

Oh, damn, done it myself.

Re:100 MegaHertz? You were lucky!

[TheIronDuke]

Prediction: This discussion will end up with someone wittering on about punch cards, paper tape, and front panel access to core memory. Then someone else will recall the Dilbert cartoon where the engineer boasts "I made a database entirely out of zeros because we had no ones".


You had zeros! when I was young we didn't even have those!

Re:100 MegaHertz? You were lucky!

[Anonymous Coward]

I only have one mod point left so I'm sitting here completely torn between the two posts. The shorter one, 'You had zeros?!?!', is a nice political kind of joke. As in 'You had zeroes?!?! Here in The Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia we have to queue out in the streets for zeroes! You Americans do not now how good you have it'.

He leaves out any reference to his own situation, prefering to let the audience use its imagination, to take part in creating the joke for themselves. I appreciate that.

The second one, 'You had zeros! when I was young we didn't even have those!' is more direct, to the point. It's a generation gap type joke rather than a political one (not that the first one couldn't have been this kind of joke as well, mind you). It's 'kids these days *shake head*. A classic, and much more rewarding joke for the unimaginative or, dare I say it, lazy audience since it clearly says what it is about.

It deserves the recognition of a +1 Funny for that reason, since it will probably appeal to more people than the first one. However, I feel the superior (in this moderators humble opinion) quality of the first one also deserves this and thus I am torn between them.

I will have this single mod point for two more days and will continue to mull over this choise for the duration of that time. Ultimately there can be only one. Which joke will outwit, outplay, outlast the other one? Stay tuned for Survivor: Slashdot. Feel free to post comments below here to try to sway the one man jury.

Re:100 MegaHertz? You were lucky!

[stud9920]

I only have one mod point left so I'm sitting here completely torn between the two posts

You are lucky ! When I was your age, my whole family prayed the local moderation baron to get one mod point to share with the whole family.

Incidently, posting in this thread rendered your mod point useless in it. Spoiled kid, you don't know haw lucky you are.

Who read this as...

[The_Mutato]

"65 CPUs that were overclocked from 100 mhz to 3.06 ghz"?? I know I certainly did...

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

[llamaluvr]

Tom's Hardware brings you this startling revelation: Newer processors are faster than older processors!

Sorry not very awake atm

[OneArmedMan]

THG

Re:Thank you, Captain Obvious!

[GammaTau]

Tom's Hardware brings you this startling revelation: Newer processors are faster than older processors!

...and it gets to the Slashdot frontpage.

Re:Thank you, Captain Obvious!

[Hanno]

You forgot to mention their site layout:

Newer. (Click next)

Processors. (Click next)

Are. (Click next)

Faster. (Click next)

Than. (Click next)

Older. (Click next)

Processors. (Click next)

Wow this is great!

[MongooseCN]

I didn't know a P4 3.06Ghz CPU was noticably faster than my P100 in OpenGL. I guess it's time to upgrade my Quaking machine!

Yup,

[Anonymous Coward]

CPU's go out of date so quickly that there's even a new version of this /. article out already!

I predict...

[m94mni]

This will be a dupe of a future article.

--Ghz == more productive

[skillet-thief]

Just because I have an old machine doesn't mean I can't make productive use of it. All right, I can't do gaming, but my Pentium 333 machine suffices for everything else.

You are probably more productive since you can't do gaming on your box. I know that any game on whatever box I'm working on definitely cuts way into my productivity (as does access to /.).