[bitwize]

> General purpose commodity silicon with rapidly evolving software generally beats specialised hardware.

All of the Amiga people are sighing right now, as they recall how their beautiful, elegant system synergistically designed with custom chips was outpaced by CPU/memory brute force in the early 90s.

[CamperBob2]

Likewise, the lesson Seymour Cray had to learn a couple of times because it didn't quite sink in the first time: "Never go up against CMOS when your company is on the line."