Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday August 23 2018, @10:01AM
Yep. It does not take much brain power to figure a modern quad-core processor at 4GHz can suck more powerfully than a 486 at 10MHz.
Now, thanks to the miracle of Meltdown, the "Lake" series processors can even suck your data into another dimension.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!