Dalfollo, just to give you some perspective on how far we've come since the introduction of the original PC, let me paraphrase Scott Mueller, author of *the* PC hardware bible, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 12th ed. He says that a 500MHz Pentium II-based system is 4000 times faster than the original 8088-based 4.77Mhz IBM PC. The reason why this is, is that you can't compare chips soley based on MHz. Because today's chips can execute many more instructions per clock cycle (hz) than older chips. Thus, even though 500 is only about 100 times more than 4.77, the actual processing speed is 4000 times that of the original 8088. Now, this is just processor speed. If you take into account the fact that today's machines have their own graphics processors that handle 3D graphics, etc., the number is much, much, higher. Plus, he is just referencing a 500Mhz PII. Your 1GHz chip is, of course, at least 8000 times more powerful than the original PC, and a HELL of a lot faster than any Commodore 64, of course. I would guess your machine has got to have at LEAST the power of 40,000 Commodore 64s. And you've certainly got 8,000 times more RAM. And 287,500 times more disk space than a Commodore floppy.
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