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Looking back over last 20 years, technology (esp. related to computers) had made extraordinary leaps forward and the pace is accelerating. Largely hardware adv
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Looking back over last 20 years, technology (esp. related to computers) had made extraordinary leaps forward and the pace is accelerating.
Largely hardware advances that are heavily interrelated with physics. Even still, it has been incremental (though still impressive) production advances and not radical architectural redesign. Intel only got bounds checking in hardware (MPX extensions) a couple of years ago, even though this was first done over half a century ago.
Software hasn't.
- ghaff 11y agoYeah, as per some of the discussion of another recent post, one of the big things that has happened over the past 20-30 years in computing is that we discovered a technology for use in digital logic circuits that has been amenable to incredible process shrinks. Certainly there's been extraordinary engineering that's gone into that shrinkage coupled with no small amount of semiconductor physics. But, for whatever other advances have been made in computing since 1980 or so, an awful lot comes back to CMOS.