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On Tue, 31 Jul 2018, ma...@mail.com wrote:

> On 2018-07-30, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 3:03:35 PM UTC-6, JimP wrote:
>>> We
>>> decided that no home computyer would ever have a CPU that ran at 1 GHz
>>> or better, nor have a gigabyte of ram.
>>
>>> We were wrong.
>>
>> Ah, well.
>>
>> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
>> - Attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Sr.), but likely spurious
>>
>> There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
>> - Kenneth H. Olsen, founder of the Digital Equipment Corporation
>>
>> 640K of RAM should be enough for anybody
>> - Attributed to William H. Gates III, but he has denied it
>>
>> I think there are others like it, in this case two out of the three quotes I could easily find are apparently spurious
>>
>> John Savard
>
> For a few years, I upgraded motherboards ("He are you _still_ using that
> old thing?"), but over the last 5 or so years, I cannot see any reason to
> perhaps faster USSB ports?
>
Yes, there was still a lot of change for a "long time".  But then it 
passed apoint where you had enough of a computer to do many things fine, 
and then later it hit a point where you could still improve your computer, 
but it was a small incremental change for the price.  Kind of like "hifi" 
in the old days, there'd be lots of articles telling you what specs you 
needed, and then those specs became common place so the articles mostly 
disappeared.  The "average" stereo was "good enough" but you could also 
pay endlessly for some very small improvements.

Two years ago I got a refurbished quad core running at 3.4GHz, from what I 
can tell it was new in 2011.  I wanted to try a multi-core system, but 
this one idles most of the time, I've not yet thrown anything at it where 
the speed increses or I see a lot of action on the multiple cores.  So I 
could have stayed with the refurbished computer I got in 2012, which was 
3GHz and had a single core but threaded CPU.

As it was, I was able to get a computer that had PS/2 connectors for a 
keyboard and mouse, and which still had a serial and parallel port 
onboard, I think there are two serial ports in there.  Legacy, and the 
further into the future I go, the less I am likely to need the serial and 
parallel ports, while until fairly recently, I was close to needing them. 
The PS/2 connectors means if I find a good keyboard, I can use it.

When I get another computer, who knows when, I'm not likely to see much 
speed increase.  Maybe ram will be cheaper and thus more of it.  Maybe 
there will be more cores, but I'm not even using four of them now, though 
I'm glad to have the potential.  SO there will be changes, but likely 
giving up the legacy, and less speed up or improvement as time goes by.

Things have matured, and that offers stability.

   Michael