On 04/24/2018 02:43 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
This reminds me of Nick Sabalausky's rant once that back in the 80's we used to run programs on 64KB RAM and 8kHz CPUs, and lived with the slow performance, and nowadays we have GB's of RAM and multicore GHz CPUs, and we are finally able to write web apps that do basically the same things with about the same slow performance as in the 80's (but with many orders of magnitude greater resource consumption). Software has come a long ways indeed.</sarcasm> :-D
Except that I don't think I ever once experienced the degree of text-entry delay or random stutters on my Apple II that I regularly experience on my "modern" PC which is more than capable of, ex., far surpassing Myst-level imagery in real-time, among other supercomputer feats.
Now that we have ARM, GPU computing, Gates is retired and MS isn't the big dog it used to be, I think we need to bring back and update the old "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" saying ;)
