Monday, 21 May 2007

A Thousand Miles...

I read in The Register that IBM have just announced a Power6 based system running at 4.7 GHz. While I think there are much more interesting trends in modern computing than CPU speed (sooo 80's!), I do think it's worth noting this clock speed is approximately 1000x faster than the original 8088 based PC's released in 1981 (running at 4.77 MHz).

Not that a p570 is a typical desktop...

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