I said in the 90's that when Moore's Law died, we could finally fix all the kludges we had been building on.
I see a lot of those kludges being fixed, so I think Moore's law is really dead.
I see a lot of those kludges being fixed, so I think Moore's law is really dead.
I really wonder how would the landscape change if it suddenly stopped being acceptable for even the basic functionality to take the massive amount of resources it takes now.
...Not to even mention economics or environmental impact of it all,
Parts of x64 OSes are still single-threaded
Programs still crash.
We can brick a computer so it does not start and refuses to tell us what is wrong.
The person who owns and uses the PC is not in complete control. Much information is hidden from them. There are malware programs.