By the mid 2000s, they just started adding more cores. Machines kept getting more memory, albeit slower. SSDs have been a game changer, and they really only got big in the last 10 years.
We never went past 64 bits because it's enough bits to address memory for the foreseeable future, and applications needing more are rare. It's mostly cryptography.
We never went past 64 bits because it's enough bits to address memory for the foreseeable future, and applications needing more are rare. It's mostly cryptography.