And the full source is under 70MB. Sure it's not a few floppies, but it doesn't require a DVD.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Callahan <[email protected]>wrote: > What kind of hardware support did Linux have 10 years ago? Today it runs > basically everywhere without any screwing around. Driver support is > incredible on modern Linux. > On Jun 13, 2013 12:47 PM, "keith smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I think some of it is bloat. Look at Linux 10 years ago and look at it >> now. >> >> I think the first time I installed Linux it came on 3 or maybe 5 micro >> floppies. That was around 1997. Now it comes on a DVD. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------ >> Keith Smith >> >> --- On *Thu, 6/13/13, Nathan England <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: Nathan England <[email protected]> >> Subject: OT: Then vs Now Programming WAS: Re: AMD vs Intel memory >> managemement >> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013, 12:28 PM >> >> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 07:01:23 AM Lyle Tuttle wrote: >> >> In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission designing, >> building and maintaining computer controlled experiments using radiation >> from and located on the face of the reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" <G> ran >> ALL experiments (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote >> locations) in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and >> people came from all over the world to see what we were doing....now a >> watch has more memory..... >> >> Time flies, and the only constant is change...... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Lyle has brought up a question that is interesting to me. I hear stories >> like this of these amazing things people did with computers 30 and 40 years >> ago and then the comment always comes up like "And we only had xx kb of >> ram". >> >> >> >> So my question is, was programming in what ever language they used back >> then more efficient and today's languages are seriously bloated and require >> more ram, or do programmers today not know how to program as efficiently? >> >> >> >> Or what gives? >> >> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> [email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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