Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?
By "computer" I mean: desktop computer, phone, tablet, VR headset. I'm not so sure that the problem happens with game consoles -- but it also doesn't seem to affect PC games. (The machine annoying me the most right now is an 8th generation iPad.)So far as I can tell the problem started around the time Win95 came out and also affected MacOS Classic at around the same time. It did not seem to affect minicomputers like the PDP-8, PDP-11 and VAX. It did not seem to affect home computers like the...
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