Before MSDos. there was CP/M (from which MSDos was copied).
The maximum size of a program was 64k - now too many are approaching Gigabytes.
Yet programmers did a great job with that 64k. Brad, perhaps with all that space that's now available, programmers can afford to be redundant?
Harry
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Christoph wrote:
Pete Vincent wrote: > It seems to me that most real productivity stuff could be done > adequately well on the computers of the mid eighties. By that time, > the machines could already do most computing tasks so fast that > most time was spent idling while the mere human crawled along > typing in responses.I thought PC computing power had to increase to compensate for the ever-slower, ever-more resource-wasting M$ bloatware... which, btw, was also responsible for the fact that "most time was spent idling while the mere human crawled along typing in responses" -- because the M$ OS had no multitasking... Chris
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