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I was thinking that, but to be fair he gave that talk 4 years ago before the tablet/phone market took off.
by chubs 15y ago
I was thinking that, but to be fair he gave that talk 4 years ago before the tablet/phone market took off.
- to3m 15y agoAdditionally, the 8086 is not much like the 386! And the 386 isn't much like the 486, which differed surprisingly from the Pentium. And each subsequent revision has followed this trend of being (at the very least) different enough from its predecessors that assembly language programmers need to re-read the manuals. Today we even have a 64-bit version, which differs from its trail of 32-bit ancestors even more than they differed from one another...
- bluekeybox 15y agoIf there is one lesson that people in this industry should have learned by now, it is, "never say forever". Or 640Kb of RAM still would have been enough for anybody.