How much more powerful would be Commodore 64 if it used an 8088 8 Mhz
or 68008 8 Mhz 16-bit processors with 8-bit data buses and 20-bit
adress buses instead of the old 8-bit MOS 6510 at 1 Mhz that had 8-bit
data bus and 16-bit adress bus?

I guess it would PWN all other computers of the era and surely make
Commodore win.

graeme@ASE.COM.AU (Graeme Gibson) writes:

the issue (initially) wasn't about CKD being abandoned but starting with
MVS supporting FBA ... and transition period from CKD to FBA.

i was told that even providing them with fully tested and integrated FBA
support in MVS ... it would still cost $26m to ship the support and I
had to show (significant, incremental) ROI for that $26m (including
opportunity costs vis-a-vis spending it somewhere else). at the time,
the claim was that they were shipping as many disk drives as they could
build ... and therefor (at best) customers would buy FBA in lieu of CKD
... with no incremental revenue.

one business case was life-cycle costs ... there have been enormous
costs sunk into incremental enhancements to CKD ... that would have much
more cost-effectively done as transition to FBA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/as_b6...&feature=email

Lecturer: Bro Sheikh Feiz 4rm Austrailia

For how long, for how long are we going to be heedless of the signs of
Allah (SWT), for how long are we going to be busy with the Dunya
(World), busy making money, chasing our dreams, following our desires...

If by chance any of you guys have a casio FX602P calculator stashed
away somewhere, I'd love to purchase it. It's a vintage calculator and
pretty much impossible to get nowadays. I used to dream about having
one of these when I was a kid, and I'd like to pick one up (before I
kick the bucket, you know:))

Thanks!
-Dean

Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080702-intel-an-expensive-many-core-future...

from above:

Intel has bad news for software developers. It's been hinted at already,
but now the company has stated explicitly: it's not enough for software
developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores. No, the future
holds tens, hundreds, or thousands of cores, and developers are going to
have to bite the bullet and write programs that will scale to such
systems.

... snip ...

recent posts mentioning multiple core chips:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#3 on-demand computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#83 CPU time differences for the same job
http://www.garlic...

NSFnet -- 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/07/01/2124239.shtml

NSFnet celebrates 20 years of Internet obscurity, inspiration
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29491

from above:

That was the email sent to users of the NSF’s fledgling NSFnet to
announce that the network's backbone had been upgraded to a “blazing
T-1 speed.” NSFnet was created by NSF a few years earlier in an attempt
to create a computer network similar to the Department of Defense's
ARPANET.

... snip ...

NSF and the Birth of the Internet
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/textonly/index.jsp

from above:

Hans-Werner Braun, former Principle Investigator for NSFNET at MERIT
Networks: "The original 56 kilobits-per-second NSFNET backbone using
Fuzzball-based LSI 11 nodes, became operational in mid-1986 between...

Features:
* Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz E4500
* 1GB DDR 2 / 320 SATA HDD
* DVD-Writer Drive with Light scribe
* Modem
* LAN connectivity
* 19" LCD monitor
* Creative 2
* 1 Speakers-Woofers
* Wireless Multimedia Keyboard
* Wireless Optical Scroll Mouse
* Wireless LAN Card
* Media Card Reader
* Front Panel Access Ports
Please see more information about desktop computers:
http://www.homeshop18.com/shop/u/y/c-Computers-Q-and-Q-Peripherals-S-Desktops/Home_Online...-

Anyone know of a hack such that the TI-59 flashes the intermediate
results of a running program on the LED display, as did the TI-57?
Perhaps there is an Op code that does this?