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by PhasmaFelis 2727 days ago
What's the difference between understanding a 40-year-old CPU and understanding a floppy drive? The second is no less impractical than the first, in the modern world.
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ddingus 2727 days ago
Oh I don't know. The floppy seems impractical, but the CPU does not.

Those 8 bit CPUs are still being used. And that level of compute can solve a lot of problems.

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