My intuition is that "limits" can be moved by some exponential exertion of mental effort.. Limits are not exactly known and hard when it comes to this stuff. This is probably the current known limit, but there's no guarantee that someone else won't beat it in 20 years ;)
I guess as capacity of the machine increase, so does the exponent on the required effort to move limits beyond the obvious.
In some way this demo demonstrates that.. The Commodore64 was/is ahead of the 5150 in the demoscene stuff in multiple ways, for instance, it has a more capable soundchip, (I have a hard time imagening better sound coming out of a pc speaker, but again, this is an "obvious" limit, and there's no saying that someone can't hack the pc speaker to do cooler stuff than what's currently being done on the SID chip), other "obvious" advantages of C64 is that the VIC has sprites and scroll registers, but this demo blows some of that out of the water..
In other words, there will be the "obvious" solutions that anyone can see (and their related limits).. More advanced thinking leads to less obvious solutions (moving the known limit), and even more advanced thinking leads to even less obvious solutions (and so again, moves the known limit).
I guess as capacity of the machine increase, so does the exponent on the required effort to move limits beyond the obvious. In some way this demo demonstrates that.. The Commodore64 was/is ahead of the 5150 in the demoscene stuff in multiple ways, for instance, it has a more capable soundchip, (I have a hard time imagening better sound coming out of a pc speaker, but again, this is an "obvious" limit, and there's no saying that someone can't hack the pc speaker to do cooler stuff than what's currently being done on the SID chip), other "obvious" advantages of C64 is that the VIC has sprites and scroll registers, but this demo blows some of that out of the water..
In other words, there will be the "obvious" solutions that anyone can see (and their related limits).. More advanced thinking leads to less obvious solutions (moving the known limit), and even more advanced thinking leads to even less obvious solutions (and so again, moves the known limit).