Main memory speeds haven't increased like CPU speeds have but it's nowhere close to where it was in 1995. You can get CPUs today with larger cache than I had RA

Main memory speeds haven't increased like CPU speeds have but it's nowhere close to where it was in 1995. You can get CPUs today with larger cache than I had RAM back then, as well. I know that CPU speed isn't everything and so a 400x speedup is not reasonable to expect. That's why I hedged and said 50x. Every part of my computer is a lot faster than it was back then and I can barely tell unless I'm using software originating from that era because they wrote their code to run on constrained hardware which means it's flying right now. It's like we've all gone from driving 80 MPH in an old beater Datsun to driving 30 MPH in a Porsche and just shrug because this is what driving is like now.