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Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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Imagine telling a 1981 programmer who was fitting an entire chess engine into 1KB RAM that 40 years in the future every application will ship with its own 250MB operating system to run in a container orchestrator which is running in a virtual machine.
At least we did something useful with Moore’s Law.
Moore's law hit the ceiling. We're only keeping up because there's an array of gas turbines running without permits in towns with low water pressure.