How have computers improved since 1990?
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memory ,buss rate is faster , cpu is faster and everything is cheaper
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why dont you just buy a new computer... windows98 is seriously outdated and vulnerable to threats...\n\ncome on!!! we are halfway through 2006.... not even the technology from last year could compete w/ the technology of this year!
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in 1960's it used to be but now with better technology - NO
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what kind of computer do you have and what year is it?
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Computers are useful to almost everything...
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I think it is the computers we use today\nhttp://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6449817972.html
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Computer Electrionics
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Time for a new computer.
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With the current hardware technology about to reach its outer limits of physics will the next revolution be in streamlining software? \n\nI have worked in technology since the ‘60’s. In the 60’s it was not uncommon for a major company to run its payroll programs on machines with as little as 16 kilobytes of main memory. I know that the missions to the moon were calculated on computers with one megabyte of main memory or less. Today we are looking at machines with 4-8 gigabytes of memory and it takes 5-minutes just to boot up a PC. It looks like there is plenty of room to improve operating systems and applications.\n\nGranted today’s computers have slicker user interfaces and are easier to use by the general public, but they have become very inefficient users of software. The object code era has allowed really poor coding to become imbedded in most of today’s applications. \n\nOnce the hardware reaches the point where adding processors adds zero throughput won’t it be time to take a look at the sloppy code written over the past twenty-five to thirty years? Isn’t there room for a revolution in software redevelopment?
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MS-DOS was way better than windows. Everything was easy to do and easy to find. And the old computers of the time running DOS ran faster than todays computers running XP
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Wait - Computers become obsolete in 3 years. That means, should you buy now, your system will be obsolete in 8 months... Think about it - $1k (or more,) going to waste at 4x the speed! :)\n\nI'm waiting too. So are millions of us! :)\n\nZ
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memory upgrades help. PCs are cheap now. The cost and effort of upgrading an old PC may not be worth it. Just buy a new one.
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computers ONLY increase productivity if people know how to use them properly, otherwise they actual decrease productivity for about 6 months til the user is up to speed
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improve what?\nIf you are talking about adding memory, then you add memory. Find out how many memory slots you have, what the max they can each hold is, buy as much as you can afford, and add the new memory.
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You mean replace your computer, I presume.\n\nThat's really up to you.  Obviously technology continues to advance at a rapid pace and better components continue to be made at lower prices.  In the end, it's all about whether you feel your computer serves your needs.\n\nDoes your present computer adequately run all the applications you use?  Can it easily multi-task?  Does its graphics capability match your needs?\n\nIf you're considering an OS upgrade (maybe the soon-to-arrive Windows Vista), that alone may provide the reason to shop for "newer-faster-better".
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The Computer for the 21st Century\nMark Weiser
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Computer memory is perhaps the most rapidly changing component in computer systems. Back in the early '80s, 1K memory chips were quite common in the first home microcomputers. Now, 25 years later, the average home computer may contain memory modules of 1GB, representing growth by a factor of 1 million times, compared with only a 1,000-fold growth in CPU speed.\n\n \nDespite this enormous increase in memory capacity, many of the problems that exist on today's machines are the same as those of their early predecessors--namely, running out of memory. The more RAM that is available to a software developer, the more the developer tends to use. Certainly techniques of memory conservation have changed with the times. In the early days of computing, programmers used clever tactics to tighten code loops or reuse blocks of memory at the expense of code readability, in order to cram impressive amounts of code into tiny amounts of RAM. Today, code size is rarely a concern anymore, and attention has shifted to storing large amounts of data--images, video, audio, and tables--but little else has changed. The articles in this series deal with memory management issues on modern Unix-like systems. Most of the topics apply to all computers and operating systems.\nMemory management is an important concept to grasp regardless of which programming language you use. You must be most careful with C, where you control all memory allocation and freeing. Languages such as C++, Java, Perl, and PHP take care of a lot of the housekeeping automatically. Nevertheless, all of these languages and others can allocate memory dynamically.