@Stan57:
These days one can customize the tool to efficiently satisfy a wide range of requirements as well as achieve lower power consumption and provide greater economic value.
You are still living in the days of merely being a tool. It's not surprising that so much has gone right by you unnoticed.
BTW, I once worked on systems with multiple-microsecond instruction cycle times, you PC-centric world view is very quaint, even childlike.
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