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That was my first thought too, but .. I honestly don't think I'd take that bet. I still have an A1200, and I struggle to think of anything that'd be genuinely
by soneil 4y ago
That was my first thought too, but .. I honestly don't think I'd take that bet.
I still have an A1200, and I struggle to think of anything that'd be genuinely improved by having, eg 7GHz instead of 7MHz (to take the article's 1000x figure) processor. 1000x the serial speed would be useful once or twice a year. 1000x the disk access speeds would be a marginal quality of life improvement (I mean I wouldn't say no, but I wouldn't give my modern machine up for it). But making the whole system 1000x faster would realistically achieve what? A hilarious SysInfo screenshot and little else.
- actionfromafar 4y agoHalf the argument is not what you would do with it. The hook is that literally everything you could do back then would be instant. I would very much like that. Given that Oberon existed, any green-field development I would have to do in that environment, would be completely feasible and comparable to any advanced environment today. The only thing I would maybe miss is a modern IDE, but on the other hand I was a late-comer to that and used (and still use) Emacs for a long time.