[Ilugc] [OT] problems with microsoft
- From: rajsekar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rajsekar)
- Date: Thu Jan 27 00:36:04 2005
Rajsekar <rajsekar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
A nice article (more of a report).
The best part was:
Only 32 kilobytes of RAM in the Apollo capsules' computers was enough to
put men on the moon. The Voyager deep space probes have on-board computers
based on a 4-bit CPU. An 80C85 CPU with 176 kilobytes of PROM and 576
kilobytes of RAM controlled the Sojourner rover that drove across the
surface of Mars and sent us a wealth of scientific data and high-resolution
images in full-color stereo. But when I have a 233MHz Pentium II with 128
Megabytes of RAM and 30 Gigabytes of disk space, and I try to type a letter
to my grandmother using Windows XP and Office XP, the job will take me
forever because my computer is underpowered!!
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Rajsekar Manokaran
IIT Madras
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