pyramid architectural restraints

[Eric Kiebler]

[Nuke the smurfs]

Since when does having nice hardware and well though-out software
make any difference?  People have been buying machines with horrible
software and lousy architectures for years, and continue to do so.
In fact, I heard a rumor that "they" are producing a particular
horrible machine with a lousy architecture at the rate of 1 every
16 seconds.  As long as lousy hardware and horrible software get
the job done, however, people are happy.  Inertia is a wonderful/bad
thing.  Until machines are sufficiently sophisticated that increasing
performance is *not* an issue, people will tweak and prod and make
trade-offs that are not in their best long-term interest.

Meanwhile, we all push our hair out in little gray bunches...

eric
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