Re: [expert] The ongoing "Trash Linux Debate"

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

I was writing code for maximum portablity on Unix and other systems 8
or 9 years ago, and not striving to make it the smallest that could be
achived, though 15 years ago I can remember sweating how small I could
make it to cram stuff under the 640k line, and cursing Bill's name for
introducing the damned line in the first place.  Even then, though, I
*also* had to make it work on systems from IBM mainframes to
minicomputers.

I was also reading usenet 18 years ago . . .

Can't say my programming life is all that different today . . .