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Technology Then and Now at McGill

Mforum – November 18, 2009

Gary Bernstein

Director, NCS

We’ve Come a Long Way, baby

Moore’s Law

• 1965: the number of components on a computer chip would double every year

• Updated in 1975: the number of components would double every 2 years.

Moore’s LawMicroprocessor Year of Introduction # of Transistors

4004 1971 2,300

8080 1974 4,500

8086 1978 29,000

Intel 286 1982 134,000

Intel 386 1985 275,000

Intel 486 1989 1,200,000

Intel Pentium 1993 3,100,000

Intel Pentium II 1997 7,500,000

Intel Pentium III 1999 9,500,000

Intel Pentium 4 2000 42,000,000

Intel Itanium 2 2003 220,000,000

Intel Itanium 2 (9MBcache)

2004 592,000,000

Intel Core i7 2009 731,000,000

Networking Infrastructure

1989

• 10 Mbps backbone2Mbps to desktop

• Finicky, temperamental, downtime

• ~ 1,000 connections

2009

• 2-10 Gbps backbone

1,000 Mbps to desktop

• Utility: Uptime essential

• ~30,000 connections

Regional Networks

1989

• BITNET

• Emergence of RISQ– 56 Kbps within Montreal

– 19.2 Kbps across Quebec

2009

• RISQ– 100 Mps 1 Gbps

• Canarie (10 Gbps)

• McGill’s Link to Internet (1 Gbps)

• McGill’s Link to RISQ (600 Mbps)

Wireless

1989 2009

• Wireless coverage in classrooms, open spaces, library, research facilities...

Remote Access

1989

• Dial up

• Large physical modem pools

• 1200 - 9600 bps

2009

• The Internet

• 10 Mbps

Internet

1989 2009

• WWW

• Browser-based world

• May 2009: >109.5 million websites

• Voice, data, video

• E-business

• E-learning

• Text only E-mail, File Transfer

• BITNET , Usenet– point-to-point : e-mail

messages + files transmitted from one server to the next

• NSFNet becomes the first backbone of The Internet

• Tim Berners-Lee writes proposal in 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web!

Messaging

1989

• Text E-mail + Canada Post

• Telex

• Fax

2009

• Exchange Unified Messagingw/Outlook

• Microsoft OCS

• BlackBerry

• IM

• Twitter

Social Networking

1989 2009

Mobile Phones

1989

• Motorola MicroTAC

• Analog

• $3500

2009

• Apple iPhone

• 3G

• Touch Screen

• $200 (with contract)

Directories

1989 2009

Desktop Computers

1989

• Intel 486DX (25 MHz)(1.2 million transistors)

• DOS 4.0

• 1 MB RAM

• 120 MB disks

• VGA (640x480)

2009• Intel Core i7 (3 GHz)

Quad Core with Hyper-Threading(731 million transistors)

• Windows 7

• 12 GB RAM

• 2 TB disks

• WQUXGA (3840x2400)

Laptops

1989

• 20 Lbs

• 60 MB disk

• 1.44 Mb floppy

• $8000

2009

• 3 Lbs

• 500 GB disk

• DVD

• $1800

Word-Processing

1989

• AES + Micon

• WordPerfect 5.1 for Dos

• MS Word 5

• Word for Windows 1.0

• Daisy Wheel Printers

2009

• Word 2007

• True WSIWYG

• 1200/2400 dpi printers

Graphics & Multimedia

1989

• Harvard Graphics

• Produce 35 mm slides and acetate transparencies

2009

• Visio, Word, PowerPoint

• Direct projection, doc camera, multimedia projectors

E-Mail Addresses

1989

• Music Mail:code@MUSICx.mcgill.ca

• MicroMail Pegasus Mail (1992) Joe@UMS1.Lan.mcgill.ca

• @po-box.mcgill.ca, @staff.mcgill.ca, @system-name.mcgill.ca

2009

• Exchange:first.last@mcgill.ca

Name Changes

1989

• UMS1

• CC

• ICC

2009

• ISR (1992)

• NCS

• IMS (2004) CCS

Applications

1989

• Financial Records– McGlad

– ASAP

• Student Records– Saturn

– Mars

2009

• BANNER Finance

• BANNER Student

• BANNER HR

• McGill Market Place