Squeak History... don't forget the Levco Prodigy! :-)
Andrew P. Black
black at cse.ogi.edu
Tue Apr 22 05:52:52 UTC 2003
At 22:10 -0700 04/21/2003, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>...
>
>These speeds are roughly 1/50th the speed of my Mac Powerbook. As I
>recall, the size of main memory was also around 1/50th what I have
>now, and the disk space around 1/1000th what one expects in a decent
>laptop today.
>
>... and we were breathless in the face of such performance ;-)
>
As well you should have been! A factor of only 50 behind where we
are 20 years later says a lot about just what a remarkable machine
the Dorado was for its time. As those of us who couldn't get hold of
one still remember.
Allen W-B or anyone else: do you happen to have comparable numbers
for the Magnolia?
Andrew
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