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   David Benfell, Ph.D. (benfell@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 10:06:34 JST David Benfell, Ph.D.

   • goatsarah

   @goatsarah @pigworker

   Somewhere below decades of accumulated cruft lies a processor that may be faster and more capable, but really not very different from that 6502.

   To understand this introduces an entirely healthy skepticism of a lot of new-fangled stuff, especially artificial idiocy.

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     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah @pigworker

     Fair enough. The memory management you refer to, however, existed in larger machines, I know specifically in the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 series and I assume others.

     In those days, as Ken Olsen (DEC's CEO or president or both) was proclaiming that computers would never be needed in homes, I longed for a Heathkit H-11, which used a PDP-11 processor.