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

[Trevor Farrell]

"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:

> 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 . . .

Hey, I can remember trying to write a noughts & crosses (tic-tac-toe)
game for  a handheld with 1424 bytes of ram! and a 256K  4 bit
processor!  in BASIC! Those were the days when you had to work hard for
every ounce of speed & memory.