24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
1:01 a.m.
On Jan 23, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
I think part of the problem I'm hitting is that
people really have no concept of age; they don't know the difference between a 486 PC
and a much newer machine running at several 2GHz - if it's more than a couple of years
old, it's just an "old, slow computer" to them.
Of course, most of this is due to the fact that a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo runs its generation of
software just as slow as a 486 did its generation. To the user, it might as well be the
same, modulo some graphical improvements. Software engineers pissing away the results of
Moore's Law, all of 'em...
- Dave