13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
7:10 a.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
Yet nobody seems to be asking: WHY DOES IT TAKE 100 COMPUTERS TO DO WHAT
A SINGLE COMPUTER USED TO DO? After all, computers today are hundreds
of times more powerful (CPU-wise) than they used to be. Disk storage
is vastly more compact power efficient than it used to be.
GUIs and lousy programmers ...
There was a time you could use pretty big (and actually very easy to
use) programs just with function key and some shortcuts.
Now, we have graphics boards with 256 bit wide memory, 256 MBytes of it.
Go figure ;-)
Cheers