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Re:Using A Very Old Machine by drewzero1 on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:28PM (#32362185)
The core i series has been around over a decade now, but the last decade has brought relatively little advancement in terms of personal computing.

As of a few months ago I've finally switched to a main computer that isn't a Core2 Duo or a PowerPC G4, both of which have been (and still are) mainstays of my personal computing journey for about a decade (once I finally left behind Pentium 4s). Heck, it was only a few years ago I was doing Dual Core Pentium to Core2 Quad CPU upgrades on our production fleet at work. Does time really move that fast?

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Re:Using A Very Old Machine by moffkalast on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:52PM (#32362388)
Time doesn't move that fast, but software becomes deprecated at double time. You can't rely on anything to exist for more than 5 years these days.
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Re:Using A Very Old Machine by Ekaros on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:09AM (#32366364)
Maybe there should be green revolution in software. Make things efficient again and don't waste time reinventing everything regularly...
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