Yes, but at the time the only people ordering or able to afford such tech were governments. Today, private space organizations routinely buy systems that vastly exceed the capabilities of systems from 1979.
Heres another similar case in point - one reason why smaller NATO and non-aligned nations dont buy photo reconnaissance satellites and have them launched is because today, right now, you (or anyone else with a surprisingly low amount of money - relatively) can buy time on *commercial* privately-owned photo reconsats that have better resolution than those the US military was using in the 1990s. Let alone those used in the time you were at Raytheon.
I wasn’t with Raytheon, I was IN the US Air Force. 22 years.
But I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying.
I worked on main frame computers systems that spanned three stories and had a whopping 1 Megabyte of core memory, which had to be cooled by copper water pipes.
Yet the computer I’m using right now has 32 GB of RAM.
We’ve come a long way, baby!