> I'm glad we've managed to dumb things way down in the > last 20 years: ... > No longer do we need to write in assembly language > (or machine code or ...)
And that's a good thing? That we now have compilers generating bloated code that make it unthinkable to run a modern GUI? Hey, I was coding realtime, *smooth* multimedia stuff on a 7MHz processor inside of 16KB worth of assembler code! How much faster would it have been if I had even a 40MHz CPU! Just look at people doing realtime Goraud shading inside a few KB worth of assembler code on a 0.99MHz Commodore 64! For crying out loud, we were competing whose depack routine had the least number of *bytes* (48 *byte* depack routine was the record). And we've progressed... how exactly? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
