Post #1799654

Do we sometimes ask computers today to do things that are genuinely beyond what those older machines could do? Sure, even focusing on typical consumer applications. Games are a big one. But I'm not talking about asking these machines to do anything new; I'm talking about using them for things *we already know they're very capable of doing*, not just in principle but because we've already used them that way! While I'm eager for the next AI winter, I have to wonder if prolonged pressure on RAM prices might finally push folks (companies, really) building consumer software to think "hmm, we should make sure this still runs on some machines with limited specs." 7/7(?)