Is not that aspect that bothers me. I’m on the same boat. I mean: why I feel I was capable of doing things in a C64, that I cannot dream of doing in my new 2000 dollar computer.
There’s nothing you could do on a C64 that you couldn’t do on a modern computer. It’s just that doing that on a vastly more complex and capable system is intrinsically more complicated.
An interesting experience is trying to run a program on an emulated 60’s mainframe OS. 1960’s and 1970’s mainframes were about on the same league of 1980’s and 1990’s home computers, but a lot more complicated and with much more control over the low level details. It gives an interesting perspective on how software complexity tracks hardware capabilities.
An interesting experience is trying to run a program on an emulated 60’s mainframe OS. 1960’s and 1970’s mainframes were about on the same league of 1980’s and 1990’s home computers, but a lot more complicated and with much more control over the low level details. It gives an interesting perspective on how software complexity tracks hardware capabilities.