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Amen to this. In '89, a Sun Sparcstation 1 ran a decent implementation of UNIX with a GUI on a 20 MHz processor with just 8 MB of RAM. Now we have dual core p
by ThrowawayR2 9y ago
Amen to this. In '89, a Sun Sparcstation 1 ran a decent implementation of UNIX with a GUI on a 20 MHz processor with just 8 MB of RAM. Now we have dual core processors running at 700+ MHz and 0.75GB of RAM used to power smartwatches that do vastly less. I mean, sure, it's technologically impressive and all but one has to wonder what the devil are they doing in there that requires all that power?
- pjmlp 9y agoUsing the wrong compilation models? It is not even the case of using GC and such. Our phones are way more powerful than any Xerox PARC or Lisp Machine ever was.