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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1654790/alexkrokus-elders
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1654790/alexkrokus-elders
Words of wisdom from my father, an engineer:
“The computer isn’t any slower than the day you bought it. Only your expectations of it have changed.”
It’s not the hardware that’s the issue. The software keeps getting slower and more bloated because most programmers don’t know how to write well optimized code anymore.
No, they definitely do know how to write faster software. They’re just not paid for that. They’re paid to write software faster, that’s all.
That falls under the category of “expectations.” Run software contemporary to your machine and it’ll fly just as fast as it ever did. Go ahead, slap Windows 98 on that bad boy.
My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.
Surpised the capacitors havent borked. You are lucky it runs.
This is a lot more true now than it was in the olden days of hard drive fragmentation and rapidly increasing minimum spec requirements. (For instance the computer my family bought in 1996 had a mind blowing 16mb of ram, Win ME released in 1999 with a 32mb RAM requirement.)