Faster chips are leaving programmers in their dust

[ronjor]

{QUOTE-> The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. Newer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software that breaks up computing chores into chunks that can be processed at the same time. <-QUOTE}Article (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/technology/17chip.php)

[ccsito]

I had a video game that I liked to play and it ran on an old AT PC (at 10Mhz). When I tried to run the program on a faster PC, the game was over in a split second since I couldn't respond in a nanosecond. LOL >:(