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by graemep 501 days ago
> I sometimes wonder what it would be like if we'd continued down that path. Maybe your laptop would have 10,000 processors in it each with a few MB of RAM and we'd be writing very different programs in languages where message passing was a first class construct.

I have wondered that too. I think having more but simpler processors and that style of software would have given us much better security and reliability.