Subj : Re: Creative Labs
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Sep 11 2025 15:59:49

-=> Nightfox wrote to ZL4KJ <=-

 Ni> Yeah, it's amazing what computers can do these days.  And it's common
 Ni> for computers these days to have multiple cores & threads, making it
 Ni> very easy to have lots of tasks running at the same time.

The change in computing in 2006-2009 was amazing - at work, we started
bringing in hyperthreaded pentium and dual core systems, and having one
more core was like night and way when system processing, like indexing
or virus scans ran during the day.

SSDs were rarities, but Hybrid SATA drives came around - SATA drives
with a 4-16 GB NAND cache slapped on the side. It'd boot up like a SATA
drive, but feel much faster once your apps got cached.

I just signed a lease for my company for all-new laptops. The "basic"
model has 8 cores and 12 threads!


 
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