On 10/28/2015 6:08 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>
> I often wonder... like, how much did [famous obsolete computer] actually
> cost? What did it physically look like? What were its technical
> capabilities? It's very hard to gather a general overview of this type
> of data.
>
PDP-8	1965	$18,500	12 	~50,000	The smallest and least expensive PDP

http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/faqs/



> For that matter, how many FLOPS can you get out of an Inter Core i7? I
> have absolutely no idea; it seems very hard to find data for this...
>

So it is.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/262886-28-core-gflops-benchmark


>>
>> Funnily enough. His project reminded me of you. Did you not once write
>> programs in PostScript or Printer Command Language?
>
> PostScript. And it wasn't *once*. ;-)
>
> Actually, I did start trying to write a PostScript *interpreter*, to
> make debugging this stuff easier! It turns out the language has a lot
> more edge-cases than you'd think though...

One edge-case is more than I ken.
I would ask what an edge-case is but then you would say that I can't 
Google. :-)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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