And the box setting on my desk is more powerful than a mainframe of that time. Luckily, because you couldn't have run this bloatware on those old mainframes.
--graywolf ------------------------------------------------- The optimist's cup is half full, The pessimist's is half empty, The wise man enjoys his drink. ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer question...) > lbparis wrote: > > > Now, cheap hardware allows software companies to kludge reusable > > modules together, in high-level languages, to meet marketing > > deadlines instead of writing compact, efficient code. Small, > > efficient programs are quickly vanishing from the scene. > > I still use a word processor named XyWrite III Plus, written in > 80x86 assembler. The main executable was about 284K; one could > fit it, the printer/keyboard/help files (all user-customizable), > and the spell checker on a 1.2 meg diskette and still have room > for a few documents. When's the last time you installed some- > thing that said "Requires 1.5 MB disk space." > > > Len (who used to program his computers using switches on the > > front panel with only 64-bytes of memory) > > Ah, another auld phart! ;-) When I went back to college we had > a PDP-11/70 (this was just before the first VAX came out). > Sucker did a great job of multitasking 32 users with 128K > of RAM, with disk drives the size of washing machines, and > you could take the platters out and wash them. Ahh, kids today... > > > Stephen Moore > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
