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