Re:Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
by btilly on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:01PM
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Huh. The article claims at least an order of magnitude more SLT modules than the reference I found. I think it is still quite a bit less than the smartphone, but that makes global compute at least closer.
Still, 55 years of doubling transistors at a given cost every 2 years is about a 190 million fold transistor difference for a given cost. Clock speeds have improved by a factor of 1000 on top of that. Even with performance tradeoffs for battery life in a smartphone, there is no surprise that the phone should have more compute power than the world did in 1970.
Still, 55 years of doubling transistors at a given cost every 2 years is about a 190 million fold transistor difference for a given cost. Clock speeds have improved by a factor of 1000 on top of that. Even with performance tradeoffs for battery life in a smartphone, there is no surprise that the phone should have more compute power than the world did in 1970.