What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?

Re:What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect p... by detaro on Sunday August 23, 2015 @09:31PM (#10107458)

> This is a wonderful post that no-one will care about. This may be the only post.

I think you are underestimating the crowd here. Last time it was posted it got quite a few responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873250 (already a while back, but might be interesting for reference/to bring topics up again)

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Re:What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect p... by lfowles on Monday August 24, 2015 @12:17AM (#10107889)

There also seems to be a constant barrage of assembly/CPU posts (I counted 4 posts including this one earlier on the front page) , I'm not sure where GP gets the idea that no one here cares.

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Re:What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect p... by dang on Monday August 24, 2015 @02:31AM (#10108208)

Seven months ago is well within duplicate range, but let's leave this one up: first to show how much the HN community does care about wonderful posts, and second to thank luu for tirelessly posting (not to mention writing) so many high-quality articles here.

If any of you want to see an example of how much difference a single user can make to HN, look at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=luu. Thank you, Dan!

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Re:What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect p... by mgrennan on Monday August 24, 2015 @01:28PM (#10111505)

Yes. I should have considered the crowd I was writing. I'm here. 35+ years of systems work starting with a 4004. I was inditing the new culture of "released and poor is better than not release and good" and "if it runs slow just scale it over more processors". In 1988 I did more in 48k of memory with 500k of disk then can be done in 4G mem and 500M of disk today.

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