17 Jun
2023
17 Jun
'23
10:49 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 2:52 PM Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Precisely. Let's not forget the real enemy here. Commenting our code. ;-)
On Jun 16, 2023, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Guzis via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 6/16/23 12:02, ben via cctalk wrote:
Somewhat earlier, the complete source for the RSTS-11 timesharing system
fit on 5 DECtapes, 1.5 MB. And that was assembly language, exhaustively
commented.
Ken , Jobs and Wozniak need their fair share.
Graphics and file system buffers take up more
space than you expect.
I just transferred a DC150 tar tape. Total (uncompressed) file size was
11MB. What was on it? The complete source to Linux 1.0.