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A big part of the reason IMO for the excitement in the
earlier years of
computing technology was that models were varying and unique, whereas today
they are uniform and ubiquitous. There's not much today that differentiates
computers from the desktop machine on up to super computers except for the
scale. "Back then" computers used a variety of different processors
and had
different models had strong points to them, storage technology was
different, etc.
Not to say that modern day computing technology isn't impressive. But we
have since at least the last decade or two entered an era of incremental
changes rather than radical ones.
-- Geoffrey Oltmans
I feel the guis have also stagnated as there is none-thing radical different between
windows, Mac and linux
excepted underlying operating system
the only system that really worth looking at are the
homebrew/clones/single-board-computers system
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