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We might need to block all software features for the next decade so we can figure out what's going on.


The C memory model underlying all modern processors does not scale. Most of the time your cpu is sitting idle.


My favourite comparison is that the A16 chip can do 1 million times more operations per second compared to the top of the line System 360 mainframe.

That is to say, a theoretically ideal OS running on the A16 could run every mainframe program in existence until the late 1970s, simultaneously.




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