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> Why can't I get my computer to perform 1600 times as much concurrent work as back then?

Is that a real question?

> But the amount of work computers do for us hasn't grown proportionally to the amount of computing power.

I don't know about you, but my laptop is much faster than previous machines. Software which used to compile with the Lisp compiler in half an hour, now compiles in a few seconds.



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