There's an old adage in the auto industry, which says a vehicle loses value as soon as you put him off puno.Računala and technology industry is not so different, in that new parts and systems are constantly pushing the boundaries of performance and value, it is impossible that the top-of-the-line system for very dugo.Svrha this work is to take a step back in time 10 years, and then examine the technology landscape to see how it compares with today's technology we know and love.
Moore's Law:
Much has been written, and much more is discussed about the technology called the axiom, Moore's Law. Some people interpret the law means a doubling of computer power every 18 months to 2 years, while others maintain that means doubling the number of transistors (the microscopic on / off switches, if you will), engineers were able to print the same amount of silicon. In fact, Moore said that transistor counts would double every year, which was later amended to every 2 years) despite this trend, and transistor performance growth has remained loyal for more than 40 years.
More recently, Moore's Law is applied to the graphics processing unit (GPU), as dobro.GPU is actually not even 10 years at the time of writing. The official term was coined by the GPU nVidia GeForce 256 series 3D cards. Released in August 1999, this was the first chip that is able to calculate the peak pixel transformation and lighting hardware. Since its release, the graphics processing power has followed a similar trend of doubling performance every 18 months to 2 years. This article is not a technical document, a review of the past 10 years to give you an idea of how far we've come in such a short time.
A little history about the author:
in 1999. This was my student / junior year in high school. Now I'll pause so that 90% of readers who grew up in the 70s and 80s can turn your nose and stop reading.
Ok, now it's out of the way, let's continue.
I have internet child. I got into computers, and all manner of electronic geekery as the Internet has become something that "might just catch on." My high school was not quite on the bleeding edge of technology as they were, but we were one of the first public school in my area to be equipped with a full T1 line and a 1.5Mbps and an awesome dedicated bandwidth that lead through the network. Our network is built from the hodge-podge mix of nicely PC labs (mostly K6 200MHz/Win 95 machines), a nightmare network engineers fabrication Macintosh;. LC II is the new iMac G3
In 1999, I was still rocking 486 DX-33 computer with 8MB of RAM and Windows 3.11 as my computer at home, while my parents had a nice Pentium 100 Windows 95 machine, my brothers and sisters, I would fight for a while. So what is the point of these last few paragraphs are probably wondering? Well, that's where I was and what I was using 10 years ago in computing, and we hope that got you thinking back a decade on what is cloud computing.
processors
10 years ago today, the world of the computer itself is in a frenzy, getting ready for the near future release a brand new Intel Pentium III procesor.Najbolji their money could make the Pentium II processor at 450MHz with PC100 memory. Rival AMD was doing okay for himself peddling their budget conscious K6-2 series processors. Your average computer cost around $ 2000 - $ 2500 at this time to a computer with a Pentium II solid procesor.Pentium III should be published 26th February and was the subject of a vicious debate over the merits of its built in a unique ID number. Also noteworthy is its inclusion of the first SSE instruction set (modern Core i7 processor is the SSE4 +). However, no software is designed to make use of new instructions that the processor was much faster than had equal Pentium II processors and took very little heat from the press.
Graphics:
on the graphics front war between nVidia and 3DFX was furious. nVidia, relative newcomer to the field, riding high on top of their highly successful TNT (Twin-Texel) video processor, and 3Dfx fought to retain his title the market leader with its line of graphical kartica.Voodoo Voodoo3 cards are excellent performers, but TNT card had the advantage of 32 bit color, while the Voodoo's were stuck at 24 bits. ATI has been around and kicking with their rage series of 3D cards (especially popular as integrated chips in servers and workstations), but they never really got into hardcore 3D accelerators race to the Radeon line debuted in 2000.
Internet:
In 1999, the Internet boom is just starting and attracting massive amounts of attention and investment capital from all over svijeta.Veliki job at that time was in search and portal business. Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, and were perhaps the most distinctive and sizable players in this industry. Google-say-wha? Other companies in other industries, such as television and ISPs have been taking notice, and Internet portals to buy the right and left hand in an attempt to tap into the viral spread of the Internet. New technologies such as Java came into his own, and began laying the groundwork for the internet as we know it today. Studies showed that by 1999 about half of American households have a computer, and most new computer purchases have been made to get online.
Other areas:
PDAs are fast becoming the new must have gadget.Palm Pilot device that led the charge. I had a Palm IIIe to half of 2000. Personal pagers are still hot sellers, but mobile phones are getting smaller and more practical and affordable. Also, the war was warming up in the area of computer memory. Samsung unveiled a new DDR memory chips that promised to double the effective throughput of the existing memory chips in a future setting, but Rambus has been busy developing their own high-speed RAM for use in high-end Intel systems.
Software:
This field is perhaps a little too much to cover here, but briefly recap OS: PC World is running strong with Windows 98, and anxiously waiting for an updated Windows 98 Second Edition will be released in May 1999.Macintosh crowd is plugging away happily on Mac OS 8.5 machines, while waiting for an update OS 9 later that same year. Linux is also starting to come into its own, as well as the big name manufacturers such as IBM are beginning to bundle distribution of RedHat, Caldera, and others with some servers.
Conclusion:
I'll admit this article is more for my entertainment and remembering than anything else. I hope that sometime during this mass of words and broken sentences, and you have some good memories of the computer equipment of the past. It is good to remember the technology we grew up with, and we are fortunate enough to have a robust Internet are used today to describe pictures and technical specifications of those glory days. Tech sites like Time Machine are there to help us relive those days, and have a little laugh at the gear we thought we would never use to its full potential. I remember touching the machine Pentium 200MMX for the first time and in awe of his raw speed and seemingly endless possibilities. Now I am constantly arguing with my current speed of 3GHz dual-core Athlon X2 6000 + PC. I can not even imagine how many windows to Pentium 200 will be thrown out today. This is a crazy world we live in
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