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"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware
by e3b0c 11y ago
"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."
(Henry Petroski)
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoRight! Had we not squandered all those wonderful hardware performance gains on useless stuff like web browsers, searching the entire internet in milliseconds or streaming HD video over the net, we could now play Pac-Man thousands of times faster than in 1983!!!