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i     1 .SH ploum	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     2 Computer that lasts forever	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     3 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     4 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     5 More RAM, faster CPU, more cache size, lower latency. Computer industry	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     6 never sleeps while trying to raise the bar over and over. It plays with	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     7 the limit of physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     8 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     9 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    10 By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer more resources to	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    11 software makers, allowing them to build more ambitious projects.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    12 The computer performance discipline sure has been worked up thoroughly.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    13 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    14 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    15 If the software comsumes all the extra computing power for its own goal,	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    16 then we are conjointly building very fast snails.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    17 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    18 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    19 This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is one direction	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    20 for the evolution of computers, but it is also possible to imagine a	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    21 race for better reliability and durability instead.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    22 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    23 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    24 Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when maximizing durability of	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    25 the hardware, but also the software ecosystem, so that a computer	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    26 built today still be useful in 50 years, without upgrades (not	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    27 preventing upgrades to happen).	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    28 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    29 .PP	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    30 An old knife is still a piece of metal that can be sharpened over	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    31 again to be able to cut long after it was built. Could this also be true	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    32 for computers?	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    33 .	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    34 .DS	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    35 https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    36 .DE	Err	bitreich.org	70
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