schwepes at 
moog.netaxs.com wrote:
  Why be surprised?  The second group had a far higher
state
 of the art.
 > From the excellent book, "The First Computers - History and
 > Architectures," an interesting comparison: 
I'm not at all "surprised" which is why I used the word
"interesting."  The comparison given in the book is a great illustration of just
how far the technology has come.  And, actually, it has come even quite a bit further
since the ENIAC-on-a-Chip project was completed in 1997.