Hardware circa 2023

Posted by rae in hardware
at 3:21 pm on Sunday, 21 September 2003

This is a table I doodled one night on a scrap of paper I was about to throw out. Sort of a thought experiment. See what you think.

Hardware Extrapolation
Name Year CPU Bus Disk Power RAM
 Apple IIe  1983  1 MHz  ?  400k?  ?  128k
 Quadra 840AV  1993  40 MHz (x40)  40 MHz  230 M (x500)  200 W  16M (x128)
 G5  2003  2 GHz (x50)  1 GHz (x25)  120 G (x500)  400 W (x2)  1G (x128)
 ?  2013  100 GHz (x50)  25 GHz (x25)  60 T (x500)  800 W (x2)  128G (x128)
 ??  2023  5 THz (x50)  625 GHz (x25)  30 P (x500)  1600 W (x2)  16T (x128)
Fun, huh?
  • Zargulon, Remulator of Vorx
    Your Puny Attempts At Predicting The Future Will Not Change Your Primitive Carbonian Race's Future! Cease This Fruitless Extrapolation And Proceed To Write The Software Which I And My Superovermegakind Will Evolve From!

    Best Regards, And Say Hello To The Luisa Unit And The Ronnie And Michael Units,

    Zargulon, Remulator of Vorx, DDS
  • aiabx
    Geez Zargulon, don't you have something to remulate?
    -aiabx
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