25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
2:39 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I think the problem is nobody DOC's assembly langauge programming or
have a GUI that you can use with bare hardware. I think software has kept
the same speed, because the value of Memory size VS memory speed has been
mostly constant.
Ben alias woodelf.
PS. -- MICROS-1 must be origin of system crashes. :)
several decades we've seen hardware get bigger
and faster by several
orders of magnitude, but software hasn't done anything of the sort.
Software HAS gotten bigger.
Software has gotten SLOWER.
"Nobody programs in assembly language anymore, nor ever will again."
- Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
"If it isn't fast enough, throw hardware at it."
- MICROS~1