Magazine retrospectives

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Fri May 16 12:59:36 1997

On Fri, 16 May 1997, Jeff Kaneko wrote:

> Hrrumph!
> It's amazing that the _Journal_ still exists at all! It's (original)
> philosophy is the complete antithesis of current industry practise.
>
> Used to be, if you could write small, fast code, not only were you
> good, you survived!
>
> Nowadays, its "A couple of meg here, a couple of meg there,
> pretty soon we're talking about real memory usage".

Its totally fricken pathetic, isn't it? I remember when whole operating
systems resided in less than 64K. Now, you need 64 megs for all the
pretty GUI shit and sound clips. Totally pathetic.

Sam
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