13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
8:43 p.m.
On 8/13/2006 at 8:34 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
So, as compared to the multi-megabyte fUtility in
Windoze, you
could say that the programmers of yore have forgotten more than
MS knows.
Maybe, but sometimes it's like working in a dead language. I think
systems-level (not applications) programmers of yesteryear were more aware
of the underlying hardware and its foibles.
Cheers,
Chuck