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> but was off on a lot of the details and specifics that really matter for adoption. How can this be sped up? It feels like progress was made as fast as possib
by closedloop129 4y ago
> but was off on a lot of the details and specifics that really matter for adoption.
How can this be sped up? It feels like progress was made as fast as possible but in hindsight it's almost silly that there was not a computer in every household in 1970.
- randomifcpfan 4y agoGiven 1970 hardware CPU and RAM costs that doesn’t seem possible. Unless you count something like the telephone, where all the smarts are elsewhere.
- closedloop129 4y agoDid those costs come from raw materials? Otherwise scaling up would have driven down those prices massively.
- randomifcpfan 4y agoMoore’s Law and Dennard scaling were in full swing during that era. The thing about exponential growth is that most of the gains come at the end. The Alto cost $100K in 1973, the price for equivalent hardware halved every 18 months. That’s exactly what happened. By 1983 we had Mac for $1000 hardware cost / $2500 list price.