> For an example of tight (and I mean TRICKY TIGHT! ) aquire and reverse
> engineer the original Microsoft BASIC. What had been around 48K on the
> PDP-11 was packed into a 4k ROM.
>
> A trully brilliant bit of optimising of existing code segments.
Neat!
My record was re-writing a set of applications such that the finished
article had six times the original functionality, took up a tenth of the
original memory requirements, and ran twenty times faster...
> Can't for the life of me remember who the work was attributed too -
> but I rather think he'd be a rather rich dude these days.
Either that or he got ripped off so bad that he quit in disgust. Pity the
poor dude who wrote the original spreadsheet. He sold the exclusive rights
for it to Lotus Development Corp. for peanuts...
Regards,
Ozz.
