Re: Colossus 5.8 MHz equivalent?

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On Jan 28, 2008 2:49 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> Somebody with a laptop beat Colossus--46 seconds versus three hours and fifteen
> minutes.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/7213215.stm


So the lesson is: "60 years later, computers are faster"?


Amazing! ;-)


It's also funny that they refer to colossus as "the 60 year old PC"

Now THATS an expensive personal computer ;-)

-JP


"What-Me, Worry?"

A.E. Neuman
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