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People enjoy dealing with simpler software and hardware as a hobby. Why does it bother you so much?
by richie_adler 2y ago
People enjoy dealing with simpler software and hardware as a hobby. Why does it bother you so much?
- f1shy 2y agoIs not that aspect that bothers me. I’m on the same boat. I mean: why I feel I was capable of doing things in a C64, that I cannot dream of doing in my new 2000 dollar computer.
- rbanffy 2y agoThere’s nothing you could do on a C64 that you couldn’t do on a modern computer. It’s just that doing that on a vastly more complex and capable system is intrinsically more complicated. An interesting experience is trying to run a program on an emulated 60’s mainframe OS. 1960’s and 1970’s mainframes were about on the same league of 1980’s and 1990’s home computers, but a lot more complicated and with much more control over the low level details. It gives an interesting perspective on how software complexity tracks hardware capabilities.