31 Jan
2023
31 Jan
'23
6:43 p.m.
I was a grad student at CMU at the time. Raj Reddy told me back then that
it was 1 MIPS, 1 million pixels, 1 megabyte of RAM.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 21:04 Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote:
On 1/25/23 17:01, Larry Stewart wrote:
Jim Morris left PARC and went off to CMU and began talking up the idea of
the "3M" workstation. One MIPs, One Megabyte of RAM, and One Million
Pixels.
The way I heard it, a workstation needed to have Menus, a Mouse, and a 1
MIPS processor. It also had a megabyte of RAM, at least a megabit LAN, a
megapixel of display, and cost about a megapenny.
Thanks,
*Mary Ann Horton* (she/her/ma'am)
maryannhorton.com
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