[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Dan Cross]

In article <v071bo$j0l$3 at tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net>,
Grant Taylor  <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>On 4/22/24 19:15, motk wrote:
>> I dunno, I'm not unintelligent but have you seen how much stress a 
>> browser engine has to endure? Thousands of people with phds smash these 
>> things to bits on the regular. Hundreds of thousands of people use 
>> electron/react/whatever apps every day and never notice. Grousing about 
>> this isn't a good look anymore.
>
>How much more productive work is done with a contemporary web browser in 
>2024 than in 2004 or even in 1998 (save for encryption)?

Oh wow, many many orders of magnitude more.  It's not even
close.

>How much more productive work are computers doing in general in 2024 
>than in 1994?

Same.  People who work on the technology itself often don't see
it because they're already immersed in it, but things have been
revolutionized since 1994.  Compare GarageBand _now_ to top end
ProTools setups on ridiculously expensive SGIs back in the 90s.

>Have the frameworks and fancy things that are done in 2024 actually 
>improved things?

Oh my goodness yes.

>I feel like there is massively disproportionately more computation power 
>/ resources consumed for very questionable things with not much to show 
>for it.  Think what could have been done in the mid '90s with today's 
>computing resources.
>
>As such, I believe that there is some room for grousing about many 
>questionable practices today.

The glut of computing resources available today has undoubtedly
made programmers less aware of efficiency issues.  But the sorts
of things we do today were science fiction 30 years ago.

	- Dan C.