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You've been active through the transition. Care to speculate why?
by throwaway91111 10y ago
You've been active through the transition. Care to speculate why?
- flukus 10y agoBasically the interfaces between the components became less stable, instead of a single PCI connector for every component and IDE for drives, several were around at once. These were stable for a long time because the CPU was always the bottleneck, then suddenly CPU's got to the point were disk/RAM and graphics card buses were the bottleneck. So probably nothing intentionally sinister, other than the lack of more future proof standardization when the change happened. Now that CPU speed increases have leveled off things seem to have stabilized again.
- WalterBright 10y agoThis. The interfaces kept changing at an accelerating rate. In the 80s people bent over backwards to not change the interface. That all went out the window.