operating systems

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Wed Dec 31 13:48:57 1997

At 12:30 PM 12/31/97 -0600, you wrote:

>Yes, Win 2.0 was quick; code bloat in those days wasn't merely the
>inconvienience it is today-- back then it was FATAL! We had a small,
>minimalist programming ethic back then.

It was nice to be able to run a program off one floppy, and never worrying
about running out of memory, even if you only had 128k/256k. But, memory
prices got cheaper, shoot, everything got cheaper, and now we need a
supercomputer just to run a word processor like Word 97. I can understand
utilizing more system resources for new and better (not to mention useful)
features, but it looks to me like people these days are just throwing in
options because they can.


- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
Received on Wed Dec 31 1997 - 13:48:57 GMT