🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <???> josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes:

}I'd like people's reactions to these predictions on microprocessor
}technology by the turn of the century...
 
}what            1980    1990    extrapolation   2000

}processor
}pins		64	256	x4		1k
}clock		8MHz	32MHz	x4		128MHz
}"Devices"	50k	1M	x20		20M
}mips		1	12	x12		144
}memory(dram)
}bits/chip	16k	1M	x64		64M
}speed		240ns	80ns	/4		20ns
                                ^
                                |
                                +-- Can we assume a linear relationship???
   Perhaps someone could add in a few more data points between '80 and '90.

John Hascall  /  ISU Comp Ctr  /  Ames, IA