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zvhxxl

@jimray What do we need new computers for if the 46 year old ones still work?

22 April at 20:44 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Kevin Russell

@zvhxxl @jimray

Microsoft has announced the computers running last version, the present version of "Windows" are all garbage that should be thrown out, they wont provide an ounce, a litre, a milometer of support for the virus attractors.

Not suggesting, or even offering a better solution, because feelings, but Linux, like the Mars Rover. And they keep running for millions of miles, and years over years.

22 April at 21:01 | Open on mstdn.social
enoch_exe_inc

@zvhxxl @jimray Well, computers have gotten much faster, cheaper, and more efficient over the years. However, it seems that we, the programmers, have been wasting all that extra computational power on making everything look pretty rather than optimise and make every byte of memory count.

22 April at 23:53 | Open on mastodon.social
enoch_exe_inc

@zvhxxl @jimray Here’s a random interesting fact: Voyager’s onboard computers were constructed from 7400-series transistor-transistor logic circuits, which I have actually used to design my own CPU. Virtually. I designed a fully functional 16-bit CPU inside my computer using circuit design software (and later ported it to #Minecraft). That’s how much faster computers have gotten since 1977.

22 April at 23:58 | Open on mastodon.social
Aaron

@zvhxxl @jimray Because software is like a catfish: it grows until it fills all available space in it's environment.

Build a faster CPU, and the next version of the software will gleefully get bigger and slower and use up gains in speed.

23 April at 1:10 | Open on chirp.zadzmo.org
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