CT Computers - Again
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Supplement Four
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This stuff is too good not to share. You should either re-post it, or post a link to it, in the RULES Index thread.
Supplement Four
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This stuff is too good not to share. You should either re-post it, or post a link to it, in the RULES Index thread.
Straybow
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Why so much? Did they write the server software in BASIC? Why not add in the CPU load of the operating system, too?
When you have a network at TL8, the primary load is disk access. When you remove the shared disk access throughput bottleneck the demands on a server are very low.
The capacity listed is for programs running independently. You only run into the "disk access" problem when switching out entirely different programs in multiple computers at the same time. Even that assumes that only one computer has all the software on disk and the others are acting as dumb terminals.
But that isn't what we're doing. Not at all. We're essentially looking at combining computers in a peer network. They are only sharing data, so one computer generates its unique data (eg, maneuver) and shares it with other computers that need it (eg, targetting).
The data stream is real-time. There is no remote disk access (if TL10+ even has such) going on from the client end of the peer relationship to load the server end.
Straybow & boomslang, I wasn't seriously proposing the "network server" as a playable piece of software. I was using that as an extreme example of how relative pricing of CT's computers is broken.
I have absolutely no problem with the base price or volume of a CT Model 1 computer. I do have a serious problem with the price of a Model 2, or higher. I do not believe a 50% increase in performance would be accompanies by a 450% increase in price. Today, in the 70's, or in the 57th (or whatever) century.
Know what I mean?
I have absolutely no problem with the base price or volume of a CT Model 1 computer. I do have a serious problem with the price of a Model 2, or higher. I do not believe a 50% increase in performance would be accompanies by a 450% increase in price. Today, in the 70's, or in the 57th (or whatever) century.
Know what I mean?
Straybow & boomslang, I wasn't seriously proposing the "network server" as a playable piece of software. I was using that as an extreme example of how relative pricing of CT's computers is broken.
I have absolutely no problem with the base price or volume of a CT Model 1 computer. I do have a serious problem with the price of a Model 2, or higher. I do not believe a 50% increase in performance would be accompanies by a 450% increase in price. Today, in the 70's, or in the 57th (or whatever) century.
Know what I mean?
I have absolutely no problem with the base price or volume of a CT Model 1 computer. I do have a serious problem with the price of a Model 2, or higher. I do not believe a 50% increase in performance would be accompanies by a 450% increase in price. Today, in the 70's, or in the 57th (or whatever) century.
Know what I mean?
Straybow
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Dang, why are you working so hard for a counter-example?
You see, the secret is the operating system. Each model of computer has a completely different operating system. But they all have to run the same programs.
Solution: the Model 2 runs a Model 1 emulator, and Model 1 emulator runs the OS 1. That's why it's so much more expensive. Really it has much more capacity than listed; that is the amount left over while the emulator is running. And then you have to pay for the OS 1, too.
Then the Model 3 runs a Model 2 emulator running a Model 1 emulator...
See? It makes perfect sense.
You see, the secret is the operating system. Each model of computer has a completely different operating system. But they all have to run the same programs.
Solution: the Model 2 runs a Model 1 emulator, and Model 1 emulator runs the OS 1. That's why it's so much more expensive. Really it has much more capacity than listed; that is the amount left over while the emulator is running. And then you have to pay for the OS 1, too.
Then the Model 3 runs a Model 2 emulator running a Model 1 emulator...
See? It makes perfect sense.
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Until you factor in that I purchased MY Model 1 as a TL 5 surplus (complete with vacuum tubes) and the cheapest TL 7 Model 2 that I can upgrade it to will be using microprocessors.Originally posted by Straybow:
See? It makes perfect sense.
Until you factor in that I purchased MY Model 1 as a TL 5 surplus (complete with vacuum tubes) and the cheapest TL 7 Model 2 that I can upgrade it to will be using microprocessors.Originally posted by Straybow:
See? It makes perfect sense.
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