Sometimes I have the same sentiment and my comments below are also comedy
about how I am thinking about these things.

If we think it over TRS-80 or Apple ][ or other computers from that time
did not have 16 million color in WQHD quality rotating 80k 3D objects at
the very same time on that high resolution. And doing this so at 60 frames
per second with all lighting and other shading effects is a real challenge
even todays high-end computers. Also back then when I run a program, that
program run only and merely, not together with other 200-300 ones at the
very same time. If that program stuck, had to reboot computer :-)

BTW I am working on a simple 2D game right now for iPhone / iPad and just
calculated, only the icons and launch images took 5 MB of space -- that is
a requirements from Apple these days. Then I have other images and audio
and of course the whole libraries and believe or not my own code too :-)
 so it ends up as a 40MB app at the end, which means it would have filled
up nearly 300 Apple ][ floppy disks. That would take a looong time to feed
to the disk drive :-)

So yeah, we have better resolutions and added more software complexities
with libraries handling cryptography and internet connections and libraries
to do all crazy physics calculations real time, and we expect all these to
be done at the same amount of time as Apple ]['s 280x192 black-and-white
one running super simple games like Froggers, Load Runner or Donkey Kong :-=
)

Tamas




On 7 March 2015 at 14:01, Neil <picdude3@narwani.org> wrote:

> So true.  I'm still sure my TRS-80 had better response time than my
> current Windows 8 machine.
>
>
>
> On 3/7/2015 2:40 PM, David C Brown wrote:
> > For the last two decades the answer to the question "Why do I need a mo=
re
> > powerful computer?" has been "So that software developers can publish
> > inefficient code"
> >
> >> Why should someone need a mobile phone with such great specifications?
> >>
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