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Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's
An anonymous reader writes "A look back at two articles from 1995, touting high end computers and 'must haves.' How times have changed... ...'Memory (RAM): We seem to have convinced most manufacturers to adopt eight megabytes as standard, compared with four megabytes in 1994. Don't buy less than eight. The difference in performance between an eight megabyte machine and a four-megabyte machine can be dramatic.'"
Those were the days....when it took 30 minutes to load a porn site
Windows 95 came with a 3d capture the flag game and a Weezer music video. Windows 7? Nope.
Therefore, computers in 1995 were better.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
"Emacs is a wonderful operating system. All it's missing is a decent text editor."
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Nonsense. Soon they will be Arduino controlled.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
You mean you don't know how to use the three seashells?
Bidets my anonymous friend! You haven't experienced high culture until you've had a warm jet of water shot between your ass-cheeks and a nice, gentle breeze across your recently wetted-and-washed rear end!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
hahahaha "1995: ...handling email, web surfing..."
speak for yourself but i think somewhat less than 90% of the people currently using a computer had access to email or the internet in 1995.
Capabilities have increased by a factor of a thousand or more in several areas.
What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
he typed it on his cell phone...
... and now they don't even know how to right!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
In 1995, Visual Basic 4 was released. Anyone who thinks that there were no bad programmers around then was either not alive or not paying attention.
That said, there are now a lot more programmers and, more importantly, the number of tasks where slow code is fast enough has increased and speed has stopped being the main concern. Software projects often live for over a decade and being able to continue to modify the code to meet new requirements in ten years is a lot more important than having it run very fast now (and what does 'very fast' mean? If it completes the day's processing in 0.5 seconds instead of 0.005 seconds, who cares?). Back in 1995, throwing away your code after a couple of years was only just going out of fashion.
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