> Question: What is the equivalent way to do this today? I don't think there is an equivalent, because as I explained here, the very noticeable, very significa

> Question: What is the equivalent way to do this today? I don't think there is an equivalent, because as I explained here, the very noticeable, very significant gains in almost every aspect that even simple hardware upgrades brought haven't been a thing for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30951533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30951533 It's not just that back then an "extremely expensive supercomputer" workstation effectively enabled you to do a lot of things that we take for absolutely granted nowadays in the first place. When not having such a beast meant essentially not being able to do any serious CAD (whether mechanical or electrical engineering), large scale software engineering, number crunching, anything related to graphics/visuals... It's also that super mundane tasks like writing a letter, editing an image, or even just booting your computer received a significant, immediately noticeable boost for comparably plain seeming hardware upgrades like a 33MHz higher clock or a bit more L1 cache.