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- We have way more pixels than what we could have ever guessed in the 1990s (800x600 -> 4k 4096x2160) [0] - Bandwidth got from 56kbps to ~10s of Gbps (Ethernet

- We have way more pixels than what we could have ever guessed in the 1990s (800x600 -> 4k 4096x2160) [0] - Bandwidth got from 56kbps to ~10s of Gbps (Ethernet, USB, Display and the like) - Even current systems can't handle the number of CPU threads we have available [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#/media/File:Vector_Video_Standards8.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution#/media/File... [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/amd-threadripper-3990x-is-here-64-cores-128-threads-3990/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/amd-threadripper-399...

einpoklum 7y ago
In the 1990s you had a bunch of places with arrays of monitors, which together showed images with 4k horizontal pixels. Also - you really couldn't imagine a 5x increase in the pixel density per axis? As for bandwidth - 100 Mb/sec Ethernet was introduced in 1995, and it was clear that this wasn't nearly the end of the line for bandwidth.
- bluGill 7y ago
  In 1995, fiber was already common for those with more data needs than that slow ethernet could go.