Re: Cracking DES with C++ is faster than Java?

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow_at_eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 05/04/04


Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:14:39 +0000 (UTC)


"Michael Amling" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:YYMlc.2565$eH1.1514839@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com...
[snip]

> Don't forget the Japanese 3M project: Planning for the day when
> personal computers would have a million bytes of RAM, a million pixels
> and a million of something else (Was it a million instructions per
> second? That seems a little low.).
>

The 16 bit Ferranti F100 had a supper fast clock rate of 10 MHz.
(Pity it took 50 clock cycles just to load its accumulator.) So a
million instructions per second would have been fast.

Andrew Swallow



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