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 Law Microprocessor 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 (9MB 2004 592,000,000 cache) Intel Core i7 2009 731,000,000 Networking Infrastructure

1989 2009 • 10 Mbps backbone • 2-10 Gbps backbone 2Mbps to desktop 1,000 Mbps to desktop • Finicky, temperamental, • Utility: Uptime essential downtime • ~30,000 connections • ~ 1,000 connections Regional Networks

1989 2009 • BITNET • RISQ • Emergence of RISQ – 100 Mps 1 Gbps – 56 Kbps within Montreal • Canarie (10 Gbps) – 19.2 Kbps across Quebec • McGill’s Link to (1 Gbps) • McGill’s Link to RISQ (600 Mbps)

1989 2009 • Wireless coverage in classrooms, open spaces, library, research facilities... Remote Access

1989 2009 • Dial up • The Internet • Large physical pools • 10 Mbps • 1200 - 9600 bps Internet

1989 2009 • Text only E-mail, File Transfer • WWW • BITNET , • Browser-based world – point-to-point : e-mail May 2009: >109.5 million messages + files transmitted • from one server to the next websites • NSFNet becomes the first • Voice, data, video backbone of The Internet • E-business • Tim Berners-Lee writes • E-learning proposal in 1989 for what would eventually become the ! Messaging

1989 2009 • Text E-mail + Canada Post • Exchange Unified Messaging • w/Outlook • • Microsoft OCS • BlackBerry • IM • Twitter Social Networking

1989 2009 Mobile Phones

1989 2009 • Motorola MicroTAC • Apple iPhone • Analog • • $3500 • Touch Screen • $200 (with contract) Directories

1989 2009 Desktop Computers

1989 2009 • Intel 486DX (25 MHz) • Intel Core i7 (3 GHz) (1.2 million transistors) Quad Core with Hyper-Threading (731 million transistors) • DOS 4.0 • Windows 7 • 1 MB RAM • 12 GB RAM • 120 MB disks • 2 TB disks VGA (640x480) • • WQUXGA (3840x2400) Laptops

1989 2009 • 20 Lbs • 3 Lbs • 60 MB disk • 500 GB disk • 1.44 Mb floppy • DVD • $8000 • $1800 Word-Processing

1989 2009 • AES + Micon • Word 2007 • WordPerfect 5.1 for Dos • True WSIWYG • MS Word 5 • 1200/2400 dpi printers • Word for Windows 1.0 • Daisy Wheel Printers Graphics & Multimedia

1989 2009 • Harvard Graphics • Visio, Word, PowerPoint • Produce 35 mm slides and • Direct projection, doc acetate transparencies camera, multimedia projectors E-Mail Addresses

1989 2009 • Music Mail: • Exchange: [email protected] [email protected] • MicroMail Pegasus Mail (1992) [email protected] • @po-box.mcgill.ca, @staff.mcgill.ca, @system- name.mcgill.ca Name Changes

1989 2009 • UMS1 • ISR (1992) • CC • NCS • ICC • IMS (2004) CCS Applications

1989 2009 • Financial Records • BANNER Finance – McGlad • BANNER Student ASAP – • BANNER HR Student Records • • McGill Market Place – Saturn – Mars