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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 10.11.2022, 16:22

>> People buy new computers for a reason. > right. like running the most recent game in > highest resolution, or running the most recent windows. Or their old computer breaking. I bought 4 old desktops recently, and all were working, and running Windows 7. One of them now no longer powers on, and another doesn't boot from hard disk anymore, but I can still boot PDOS from USB stick. When the next 2 fail, what do you propose I replace them with when the production lines have become glass, but universities are still able to produce some, and/or when industry starts to ramp up again? Shooting the neighbors is like socialism - eventually you run out of other people's money. > I don't see how an 8-bit CPU could ever fulfill such a reason. I happily used a Commodore 64 for years, and I wouldn't say that I ever completely mastered it. Other people managed to get a C compiler working on it, I never did that, as one example. > > > in particular not by obscure 16 > > > bit computers that nobody can program. > > > > What do you mean by this? Why can't people > > program 16 bit computers? > > I'm aware you missed this, but programmers today (mostly) learn to code in > python, Perl, or javascr***. these languages aren't this widespread in > 16-bit land. And what's preventing them from picking up C, or the other languages available on the 8086? Are you suggesting that programmers have devolved to a point where they can't learn new languages? Even if some of them have, it's surely not all of them. BFN. Paul.

 

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