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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
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:[email protected]
• MicroMail Pegasus Mail (1992) [email protected]
• @po-box.mcgill.ca, @staff.mcgill.ca, @system-name.mcgill.ca
2009
• Exchange:[email protected]
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
