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I once saw a TV commercial for a non-name-brand PC with one of the first x86-64 CPUs. It seemed decent enough but it wasn't that much faster than 32-bit machin
by ken 8y ago
I once saw a TV commercial for a non-name-brand PC with one of the first x86-64 CPUs. It seemed decent enough but it wasn't that much faster than 32-bit machines of the day, and I doubt it had enough RAM slots to break 4GB, anyway. They repeatedly claimed that 64 bits meant it was "the last computer you would ever need to buy".
- JohnFen 8y agoBack in those days, claims that a system will never become obsolete were pretty common as marketing nonsense. I think that particular lie (and it was always a lie) came up so often because technology was advancing at an incredible rate, and it made people reluctant to buy computers because they knew that it was going to be obsolete in less than a year. The old "joke" -- funny because it was true -- was that a computer was obsolete the minute you took it out of the box. The pace of hardware change has slowed considerably since then -- now advances are more along the lines of "the same thing, but faster and/or smaller". Worthy advances, to be sure, but nothing that makes last year's machines garbage.