3 ms·

Further, point 5 refers to the SARS outbreak ('02-'03) and BSE (mad cow disease, which I believe entered mainstream US news around '03-'04), so I'd place it ano

by vitus 10y ago

Further, point 5 refers to the SARS outbreak ('02-'03) and BSE (mad cow disease, which I believe entered mainstream US news around '03-'04), so I'd place it another year out, in '04. I do find it a bit bizarre that he cites his CPU's clock rate in Mbps, though, since it makes it a bit more difficult to identify his particular CPU. Further, processors in the early-mid 2000s had 10x as many transistors per chip. Although, it's not unreasonable to assume he was simply using a computer that was several generations old. edit: ah, I see. Specific pointer to relative dates in the article. Good catch!

feral 10y ago
> edit: ah, I see. Specific pointer to relative dates in the article. Good catch! Also, your post spurred me to more searching: http://babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/dmh/engineering/engineer03/ http://babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/dmh/engineering/eng... File modification dates between 30 Sept and 06 Oct 2003! The easy way to do it :-)
khedoros 10y ago
> I do find it a bit bizarre that he cites his CPU's clock rate in Mbps I assume it was a mistake, and he meant MHz. The numbers work out pretty well, interpreted that way (4MHz and 16KB RAM vs 900MHz and 128MB RAM).