> Cherry picking the bad ones while ignoring the good ones to prove a point is boring and not reflective of the actual industry.
Can you give us examples of the "good ones" for the "bad" examples he cited.
> These posts fondly remember just the speed, but always seem to forget the frustrations, or re-imagine them to be something we treasured.
No, he is saying that certain paradigms made computers fast in the past and instead of adopting and working progressively on them, we have totally abandoned them. He is not advocating embracing the past, wart and all, but only of what was good. He is not asking us to ditch Windows or Macs or the web and go back to our DOS / Unix era.
The original Kinetix 3D Studio MAX was NOT as slow as the current AutoDesk products. It had a loading time, but I can live with that.
With the speed of the M.2 SSDs we have today and everything else I really wonder why it got like this.
Maybe it's the transition to protected mode that did all this? Now everything has to be sanitized and copied between address spaces. But then again, Win95 were also protected mode. I don't know... :)
Can you give us examples of the "good ones" for the "bad" examples he cited.
> These posts fondly remember just the speed, but always seem to forget the frustrations, or re-imagine them to be something we treasured.
No, he is saying that certain paradigms made computers fast in the past and instead of adopting and working progressively on them, we have totally abandoned them. He is not advocating embracing the past, wart and all, but only of what was good. He is not asking us to ditch Windows or Macs or the web and go back to our DOS / Unix era.