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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on October 27, 2017, 01:41:53 pm

Title: If you think your PC (or console) setup is too slow...
Post by: jr2 on October 27, 2017, 01:41:53 pm

(https://i.redd.it/jqhs8algybuz.jpg)

Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/791vzp/always_remember/)

Title: Re: If you think your PC (or console) setup is too slow...
Post by: Spoon on October 28, 2017, 06:16:23 am

Yeah okay, good for them. But my 3ghz isn't going to get me to the moon. And this knowledge sure as hell isn't making my setup go any faster.

Title: Re: If you think your PC (or console) setup is too slow...
Post by: The E on October 28, 2017, 06:20:22 am

Yeah, the AGC is an amazing piece of computing history.

But knowing it exists doesn't make me less irritated with the old piece of crap laptop I am typing this post on right now for its slowness, noise and heat.

Title: Re: If you think your PC (or console) setup is too slow...
Post by: Phantom Hoover on October 28, 2017, 06:45:58 am

Having more RAM is great because it gives you more memory to fill with separate instances of Chrome for every standalone application

Title: Re: If you think your PC (or console) setup is too slow...
Post by: jr2 on October 28, 2017, 06:59:46 am

Story time!  (Extremely interesting bit of information on how NASA worked around a hard-coded bug in the Apollo computer that could have ruined a mission)

Title: Re: If you think your PC (or console) setup is too slow...
Post by: Mito [PL] on October 28, 2017, 08:44:40 am

Quote from: The E on October 28, 2017, 06:20:22 am

But knowing it exists doesn't make me less irritated with the old piece of crap laptop I am typing this post on right now for its slowness, noise and heat.

Hardware doesn't lose performance over time, it's just that software is getting ridiculously resource-heavy. You could write just as comfortably here onsoftware from couple years back. (I know, security.)