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In Reply to: RE: Can We Get Past 1982, Please?! posted by Palustris on November 16, 2014 at 07:53:37:
I hear ya. Note that in another post, I corrected myself and wrote 1981. (Yes, I know there was also the Radio Shack TRS-80, but it never gained the popular appeal of the Apple II.) That's the year I was introduced to the Apple by a friend who, at work, used a DEC PDP-11, but at home, used an Apple. By '82, the IBM PC was available.In '81, there was also the Xerox 820, running CP/M, with its 8" floppy disks, but, for some odd reason ;) , it never broke into the mainstream of Joe & Mary's household. "Asteroids", "Space Invaders", and "VisiCalc" brought the PC to the masses and corporate cubicles on the Apple II.
So, the personal computer market didn't really take off until the Apple II, hence my comment "the only game in town" (discounting, of course, the "game" computers).
In any case, the point of my original post was to highlight the fact that, 30+ years later, even with screaming fast processors which need their own fans, gigabytes of memory and instant access solid state drives, many of today's apps are just as slow as apps of 30 years ago. Why can't we ever seem to "get ahead of the game"? Examples: When I'm recording audio from the stereo with SoundForge, my Internet performance slows WAY down, and FireFox takes several seconds to load even when it's the only app being started. Yes, I get it: Programmers take advantage of every bit of available memory, processes, etc., but it's still frustrating.
:)
Edits: 11/16/14
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