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		voidspark 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world could run on older hardware if software ... As the other guy said, top of the line CPUs today are roughly ~100x faster than 20 years ago. A single core is ~10x faster (in terms of instructions per second) and we have ~10x the number of cores.

topaz0 3 months ago [–]

And the memory quantity, memory speed, disk speed are also vastly higher now than 20 years ago.

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