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We never get over the need for speed?
A little off topic but I question whether we really do hanker for speed. I really think there is very little difference between my boot time in 1994 and the present day. I think my word proccesser is in fact slower today than it was in those days. We are constantly hankering for speed because every year all our apps get slower, so infact we are desperate just to tread water.
Win 95 was probably the biggest slow down, but Microsoft can't be blamed for everything. Ubuntu seems to be slowing down too.
I can't really fathom the phenomena, because it would suggest our apps + OS, computational complexity is growing at the exponential rate of our hardware. I can see that tons of features have indeed been added over time, but surely not at an exponential rate?
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