> Why can't I get my computer to perform 1600 times as much concurrent work as back then? Is that a real question? > But the amount of work computers do for u

> Why can't I get my computer to perform 1600 times as much concurrent work as back then? Is that a real question? > But the amount of work computers do for us hasn't grown proportionally to the amount of computing power. I don't know about you, but my laptop is much faster than previous machines. Software which used to compile with the Lisp compiler in half an hour, now compiles in a few seconds.