| Well, if you include the power to get to the modern hardware: no; then you are indebted forever by running Starcraft on emulation. We often discount progress as obvious because we never paid the price of photosynthesis for millions of years before our tiny part in existence. My problem is specifically getting to the consensus we have today, we were too slow, 6502 (8) freed humans 1982-85, 68000 (16) and ARM-1 (32) came 1985. So we had the instructions (in both senses) for the final hardware then. 40 years, and X trillion barrels of oil, later we are still in complete hardware and software confusion. 64-bit is a big mistake, because nothing scales to infinity; and since nothing is free, we are about to pay the price now! Indebted to the past and the future to max! I say roll back to C and Java and rebuild from there on Risc-V (even if it has 128-bit addressing, in case you run out of your 18.4 exabytes 64-bit RAM/disk). But it might already be too late. |