RetroComputing makes me feel thankful that I've lived through so much progress in hardware with Dennard scaling[1] and Moore's law. It's a good reminder of just

RetroComputing makes me feel thankful that I've lived through so much progress in hardware with Dennard scaling[1] and Moore's law. It's a good reminder of just how limited the hardware was, and what a total pain in the ass some things were. I've got a VAX/VMS 7.3 System that runs in my cheap ass android phone thanks to SimH. I can even telnet into it. ;-) It's also a good reminder of the era of actually secure computing, and the most secure computer ever, an IBM PC XT with no hard drive ... but that's a rant for another thread. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling