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RISC has always been a marketplace relative thing. Standard HN automobile analogy is the subcompact car class has always been the lightest car class on the roa
by VLM 7y ago
RISC has always been a marketplace relative thing.
Standard HN automobile analogy is the subcompact car class has always been the lightest car class on the road, although a 2020 subcompact car weighs about a thousand pounds more than a subcompact did when I was in high school. Think of a 1990 Geo Metro at 1500 pounds vs a 2500 pound contemporary Toyota Yaris. Its always been weird to me that an old girlfriend's Metro weighed 1000 pounds less than the Yaris I own today.
The average American mass has gone from perhaps 150 pounds up to 300+ pounds over the same time frame, so weirdly enough cars are getting fat slower than humans on a percentage basis, LOL. Cars (AND RISC CPUs) don't run on corn syrup, I suppose.
- beatgammit 7y agoTo be fair, the average American male is 195 pounds, so you're exaggerating a little bit. But it is weird how heavy cars have gotten. I guess it's a combination of adding security features and demand for larger cars. I'm in the market for a car, and everything is just a bit larger than I remember for a given class. I dislike big cars, so finding a good fit is annoying.
- jjuel 7y agoSecurity and luxury features. I mean the amount of tech that Yaris has compared to that old Metro is a Grand Canyon sized gorge. Add in safety features like air bags, and crash protection. The weight can increase quickly. So while the car may have weighed less you were also far less likely to enjoy driving that car, and far less likely to survive a serious crash.