Neat! (Re: you and parent) At their core, most hardware evolutions seem like optimizing compute:memory:storage:functionality vs the (changing) current state of

Neat! (Re: you and parent) At their core, most hardware evolutions seem like optimizing compute:memory:storage:functionality vs the (changing) current state of the art/economy. When Ethernet was first released, compute was expensive. Made sense to centralize compute (in routers) and make everything else dumb-tolerant. Now, compute is cheap and plentiful at network-calculating scales and throughout expectations are very high, so it makes sense to burn compute (including in clients) to simplify routing hardware.