2026-02-17 16:27 UTC
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@M0KHR@mastodon.radio 2026-02-17 17:37
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @tom_verbeure@mastodon.social @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @datenwolf@chaos.social Computing went through a mad pace of change between 1985 and 2000, from 8-bit computers to 64 bit becoming relatively affodable with Alpha chip. I went from doing BASIC on my Spectrum 48k as a kid to running multi-user systems on Intel/AMD architecture. Meanwhile, the last 15 years in user-end hasn't that much advanced. Yeah, more cores, more RAM but I've already had more than 4GB RAM on my PC in 2010, and even now that's quite OK with Linux.
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@tom_verbeure@mastodon.social 2026-02-18 03:42
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @M0KHR@mastodon.radio @datenwolf@chaos.social I don’t think anything will ever match the hype when Doom was first released. There must semiconductor companies out there whose entire existence is due to the spike in demand for network cards.
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@hennichodernich@radiosocial.de 2026-02-18 06:21
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @tom_verbeure@mastodon.social @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @M0KHR@mastodon.radio @datenwolf@chaos.social My first computer was a second hand 386SX20 running MSDOS 5.0 in 1994. I quickly upgraded the 1 MB of RAM to 4MB and installed a Mitsumi FX001(S). It was basically a DOS machine, even if it had Win 3.1 installed. I was never much into gaming but rather wrote programs in assembler using debug.exe (Ralph Brown's Interrupt List FTW). First new machine was a K6-266 with Win98 in 1998 (but still no games, Winamp, DivX and the like...)