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> there are plenty of other places that the modern, new-school 'retro-' microcomputers can find their setting Quite amusingly it tends to be a very narrow and
by justsomehnguy 1y ago
> there are plenty of other places that the modern, new-school 'retro-' microcomputers can find their setting
Quite amusingly it tends to be a very narrow and specialized things usually. Quite the opposite of the universability of a modern computers.
- MomsAVoxell 1y agoI think seeing a narrow/specialized use case for older computers demonstrates the general applicability of computers as a whole. They’re “infinite machines” inasmuch as there is an infinity of uses for a computer, and not all of those cases are obvious.