Tom Anderson
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:39:39 -0800
On Wed Jan 27 9:10 , Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> sent: >>>> On 1/27/2010 at 11:05 AM, Tom Anderson tp...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >>> Wow. That's way too many :) >>>Course 64K should be enough for anybody. >> >> Remember saying that exact phrase about memory? ;) > >Off by an order of magnitude. 640K, not 64K. When we first got "toy" computers, we used to build all our applications to link as ".com" binaries: single "base" register, no relocation information, and a flat 64K virtual address space. Fast, efficient, reliable, and easy to debug. ;)
Anyway, you all get the point: software tends to expand to fill the available resources (not saying this is good or bad, just, generally, true). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390