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> And that’s when Andy lost some credibility with me. I can’t remember exactly what he said about future speeds, but I seem to remember 400 megahertz or maybe e
by austincheney 7y ago
> And that’s when Andy lost some credibility with me. I can’t remember exactly what he said about future speeds, but I seem to remember 400 megahertz or maybe even more. Oh, please. You’re claiming 10x more than Motorola?
Discarding numbers out of hand, at least those number actually were fictional. Reminds of a recent comment on HN where people twisted themselves into knots ignoring numbers they could easily reproduce themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590983
- AceJohnny2 7y agoI love this story so much because of that paragraph specifically. (I had read it before but couldn't find it anymore. Happy to see it show up again!) > The only thing more insane was Intel’s 80486 running at 66 megahertz! Can you imagine? I was a physicist, I should know. It's so perfect! I'm glad he gives us the benefit of his hindsight.