Every once in a while, a video comes along that will change your life.
This isn’t that video
But it’s still pretty cool, especially if you’re part of the 8-bit generation like me.
The coolest video you’ll see this week
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I always stunk at ‘Kung-Fu’.
I think it is hilarious to refer to generations based on the bus-path width of the processors of the time.
It truly is a sign of how digitally oriented we have become. While my first game system was the Atari 2600, I actually got my first computer a littler earlier, around 1980. It was a Commodore VIC-20. It had the same 8-bot processor as the 2600 with only a 3-bit color depth. I spent hours programming simple little games into it. Also, instead of a hard drive or even a floppy drive, which were crazy expensive at the time, I stored my programs on audio tapes using what, if I remember correctly, was called a Datasette.
I guess that we may want to start referring to this generation as the SUPER generation since most desktops and even game consoles have reached the classification of Super Computers by the standards of years past. With multi-thread processing and multi-layering of bus paths with multiple processors today, it is not possible to simply say that the standard of the day is limited by a single bus path.