It occurred to me a few weeks ago that I could simulate a PC ISA bus using one of those "tiny, slow chips!" Yup, all those bags of old ISA bus peripherals I have in the closet could be run by one of these little CPUs.
Still never got used to the fact that the "tiny, slow chips" (I like that expression) littering my desktop are faster than the first three PC's I owned. Seriously, an AVR microcontroller I paid $2 for runs at 20MHz -- roughly the speed of a PC AT.
Yeah, we're definitely spoilt by yesterday's standards. I'm lucky in that while I'm young (24) I got into programming/computers early enough that I remember what it was like back in the Atari/Apple II/Mac Classic/286/386 days...
I still remember the day my Dad bought a Macintosh Centris 650. The best computer on the market at the time for use in sound mixing. 25Mhz of pure grunt. And it only cost a cool $10k!
Still never got used to the fact that the "tiny, slow chips" (I like that expression) littering my desktop are faster than the first three PC's I owned. Seriously, an AVR microcontroller I paid $2 for runs at 20MHz -- roughly the speed of a PC AT.