03-30-2009, 03:03 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
I didn't bother looking up any definitions of "obsolete," but to me, the word means "no longer valid or useful."
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But that is context driven, no?
What is obsolete in one application/location is state-of-the-art in another.
In computer tech alone, there are plenty of examples of "obselete" tech that is still very very useful.
It may have been superceded by newer, more advanced technologies, but the old stuff still does what it always did as well as it always did. And occasionally, old obsolete ideas get repurposed to other areas. So that a 1993-vintage Pentium architecture can get refined as an ultra-low power mobile Processor for 2008 called Atom.
Return of the Son of Pentium in 2008? Intel's new ultramobile processors - Ars Technica
Which is not that odd, the ARM architecture so prevalent in cellphones started out as a desktop computer architecture in the Acorn Arquimedes line way back in 1987.
Acorn Archimedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There really is a difference betweeen obsolete and useless. |
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