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I sometimes think that. I am amazed at when I look back at the BBC Micro and think of the software I used to run on there, and how they did it with such tiny am
by 72deluxe 10y ago
I sometimes think that. I am amazed at when I look back at the BBC Micro and think of the software I used to run on there, and how they did it with such tiny amounts of RAM.
I do realise that the last 20 years of GUI progress has stalled and that you could take a Mac from yesteryear or PC from ~1991 and know your way around it without any trouble at all.
Of course software development strategies have changed and languages now let us express ourselves in previously unimaginable ways, but we've come so far and not far at all.
I am particularly struck with the craze over the last 5+ years with regard of "cloud" and shoving data to the other side of the world, particularly given the microcomputer revolution and the lack of need to shove your data elsewhere. That's what the microcomputer is for!