A Little Bit of Nostalgia

[Ben Evans]

Hi,

If like me, you grew up with 8-bit machines in the 80s, then you might
find this short read of interest, especially in contrast to what we
have to contend with today:

https://gist.github.com/pervognsen/c3cda8cce0f3bf5ad68a753d9ab5259c

Thanks,

Ben

[Avi Kivity]

Thanks for that bit of nostalgia.


I love it how people are surprised that that memory speeds increased
less than 10X in 35 years. They should be instead surprised that clocks
increased 3000X in that time. People take that for granted for some
reason, even though that was the anomaly, and every other field improved
at the rates that DRAM did, and often far slower than that.