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by divbzero 802 days ago
That’s not a hypothetical, is it? Given Moore’s Law, just look back a decade or so and you’ll get a sense of what software development was like when CPU speeds were 20x slower. And if you take it even further, looking back six decades or so, you’ll see things like the Story of Mel that would never happen in software development today.