You realize that limitations like 16 bit addressing was because of the extreme limitations of the time right? The 6502 can address 65KB of memory, had 13 addres

You realize that limitations like 16 bit addressing was because of the extreme limitations of the time right? The 6502 can address 65KB of memory, had 13 address modes, 55 instructions and was made out of 3,510 transistors. Modern CPUs have over a million times the transistor count. Every year was another iteration of these limits being updated, no one ever thought any of these numbers were going to stay static. It took 1MB of memory just to have a 24 bit color frame buffer at NTSC resolution. IP addresses were set at 4 billion when you could print out a list of known computers and put it in a binder and we still use it today. This idea that people had a general lack of foresight was completely untrue. What people did with limitations like 3,510 transistors is astounding.