27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful

Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by oliwarner on Friday June 02, 2023 @06:28AM (#36163373)

And power consumption is a —among other things— a function of transistor size and process. A lot has changed in 30 years, but our methods of programming these things has veered towards incredible wastefulness.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by mysterydip on Friday June 02, 2023 @08:15AM (#36164088)

To put it another way, how much longer battery life would that same psion get if the CPU/board was made with modern transistor sizes.

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Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful by cptaj on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:23AM (#36164722)

But demand for software has also grown a lot in that period. If we trained software engineers and demanded quality to the same standards, we would not be able to meet demand.

Those standards were also set by the limitations of hardware, not because people had the will to do better back then.

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