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1 .SH ploum |
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2 Computer that lasts forever |
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4 .PP |
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5 More RAM, faster CPU, more cache size, lower latency. Computer industry |
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6 never sleeps while trying to raise the bar over and over. It plays with |
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7 the limit of physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going. |
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8 . |
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9 .PP |
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10 By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer more resources to |
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11 software makers, allowing them to build more ambitious projects. |
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12 The computer performance discipline sure has been worked up thoroughly. |
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13 . |
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14 .PP |
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15 If the software comsumes all the extra computing power for its own goal, |
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16 then we are conjointly building very fast snails. |
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17 . |
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18 .PP |
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19 This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is one direction |
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20 for the evolution of computers, but it is also possible to imagine a |
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21 race for better reliability and durability instead. |
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22 . |
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23 .PP |
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24 Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when maximizing durabil… |
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25 the hardware, but also the software ecosystem, so that a computer |
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26 built today still be useful in 50 years, without upgrades (not |
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27 preventing upgrades to happen). |
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28 . |
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29 .PP |
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30 An old knife is still a piece of metal that can be sharpened over |
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31 again to be able to cut long after it was built. Could this also be true |
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32 for computers? |
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33 . |
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34 .DS |
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35 https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/ |
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36 .DE |
