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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online |
| Date | 2025-01-24 00:52 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <lvg6huF1fveU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:37:12 -0600, chrisv wrote: > rbowman wrote: > >>Years ago we used water cooling on an prototype machine. It was a 50 KW >>Colpitts oscillator powered by a very large Eimac tube, not a computer. >>There must be some corollary to Moore's law where power consumption is >>inversely proportional to device complexity and doubles every two years. > > It doesn't seem all that long ago that CPU's didn't even require > heatsinks. I recall 33MHz 486 PC's being that way. When the 66MHz 486 > DX2 came out small heatsinks (without fan) began to be used. Pentiums > started using heatsinks with integrated fans. A company I did some work for had a collection of no-name 'turbo' PCs. I don't remember if they had a heat sink but the cases were the AT form factor and you needed to leave the cover off to let them breathe. Today even the Pi 5 in the Canakit box has a heat sink and a cute little fan. https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/datacenter_emissions_not_accurate/ We have successfully replaced smokestack industries -- with smokestack industries where the smoke is hidden.
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Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-22 19:18 +0000
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-22 19:56 +0000
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-22 15:55 -0500
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-22 17:42 -0600
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-23 01:33 +0000
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-23 07:17 -0600
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-23 18:13 +0000
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-23 14:37 -0600
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-24 00:52 +0000
Re: Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-23 15:48 -0500
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