• Sizing2673@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I do

    I mean slow in terms of innovation, which they stagnate on

    But also performance actually

    Their TCP\IP stack is one such consequence. It doesn’t have any of the massive changes that happened in the last few decades that have optimized performance

    Open source stacks picked those up immediately. Windows, and other older platforms still use a much slower and more poorly designed stack

    That’s one such example. Plenty of others

    It’s not that they can’t solve problems. They can.

    Steam engines can solve everything too. But they are not the best at every task and these days it’s hard to find anything that couldn’t be beaten otherwise

    Mostly these systems ONLY exist because of legacy

    It is why none of the big compute players have touched any of that in decades. Because it is dead technology and a dead end