Re: Modern Day Machines - Will anyone care?

Date: 13 Jun 2003 19:00:37 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:23:27 +0100, there was a flash of lightening and a clap
of thunder. A voice, believed to be the voice of God (but later turned
out to just be Ian Bland trying out a karaoke machine and having a few
electrical problems) boomed out:
> except
> I'd have to cripple that future machine to make it do things as slowly and
> awkwardly (by comparison from that future) as this one does now.
I'm sure if you are running Windows 2020 then that will happily cripple
the machine for you.
Anyway, I very much doubt that a PC in ten, twenty years time (not sure
about the timeframe) will still be exactly the same, only faster. The
x86 CPU line is unlikely to last that long, meaning Windows will have to
migrate to a completely new architecture or die (or the hardware will
get stuck to a point where they can't get processor speeds any higher).
Presumably there will be emulation of x86 within any new sort of
Windows, but running Windows 95 on the new arc isn't going to be possible
without a "proper" emulator.
Chris
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