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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: Byte ordering
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:00:38 -0400
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> Not every PC made in those years was crap.  Some of them were quite
> reliable and lasted long.

But back then, Dennard scaling meant that an 8 year-old PC was so much
slower than a current PC that it was difficult to find people willing to
still use it.

Nowadays, for a large proportion of tasks, you can't really tell the
difference between a last-generation CPU and an 8 year-old CPU, so the
reliability is much more of a factor.


        Stefan