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> General purpose commodity silicon with rapidly evolving software generally beats specialised hardware. All of the Amiga people are sighing right now, as they
by bitwize 5mo ago
> General purpose commodity silicon with rapidly evolving software generally beats specialised hardware.
All of the Amiga people are sighing right now, as they recall how their beautiful, elegant system synergistically designed with custom chips was outpaced by CPU/memory brute force in the early 90s.
- CamperBob2 5mo agoLikewise, the lesson Seymour Cray had to learn a couple of times because it didn't quite sink in the first time: "Never go up against CMOS when your company is on the line."