alt Hacker NewsI always wondered what if time hardware development stopped in 1969: how far we couuld go with such machines with new fresh software? :)
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protocolture • today at 3:20 AM
Either it wouldnt have taken off or it would just be serial cable back to big mainframes.
userbinator • today at 3:45 AM
The demoscene shows what's possible with machines from the early 80s.
A lot of our software really depends on things like fast disks and significant memory. I think we might have ended up with the development of memory-constrained algorithms that don’t exist now, and computing would be very much a batch-mode endeavor rather than the interactive process we have now.