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It used to be possible and practical to do real work on much less capable hardware. Making the difficult stuff possible really should not have made the ordinar
by ninalanyon 2y ago
It used to be possible and practical to do real work on much less capable hardware.
Making the difficult stuff possible really should not have made the ordinary easy stuff that we already had so much more difficult.
We used to browse the web with 486s and megabytes of RAM. If all I'm doing is reading a newspaper I shouldn't need giga bytes of RAM.
- zokier 2y agoAt the same time, at no point of history of computing has 10 year old PC been as useful and usable as it is today, if the PC was half-decent to begin with Using 2015 PC in 2025 is far less painful than using 1995 PC in 2005.