Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's 461
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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.'"
yup (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 95 vs Windows 7 (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 95 came with a 3d capture the flag game and a Weezer music video. Windows 7? Nope.
Therefore, computers in 1995 were better.
Re:yup (Score:5, Funny)
Now the porn is available on demand but it takes 30 minutes to load up my schlong :(
Re:yup (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (Score:4, Funny)
"Emacs is a wonderful operating system. All it's missing is a decent text editor."
Re:Eh (Score:4, Funny)
Nonsense. Soon they will be Arduino controlled.
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
You mean you don't know how to use the three seashells?
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
Capabilities have increased by a factor of a thousand or more in several areas.
What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
Re:yup (Score:5, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/598/ [xkcd.com]
irony (Score:5, Funny)
he typed it on his cell phone...
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
... and now they don't even know how to right!
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
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.