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And power consumption is a —among other things— a function of transistor size and process. A lot has changed in 30 years, but our methods of programming these t
by oliwarner 3y ago
And power consumption is a —among other things— a function of transistor size and process. A lot has changed in 30 years, but our methods of programming these things has veered towards incredible wastefulness.
- mysterydip 3y agoTo put it another way, how much longer battery life would that same psion get if the CPU/board was made with modern transistor sizes.
- cptaj 3y agoBut demand for software has also grown a lot in that period. If we trained software engineers and demanded quality to the same standards, we would not be able to meet demand. Those standards were also set by the limitations of hardware, not because people had the will to do better back then.