20 Sep
2011
20 Sep
'11
6:56 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Thain" <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: RANT: Never enough room
This is very true and may be the only realistic way of turning back the
tide of bloat, poor design and poor architecture. Programmers should be
on SLOW machines! Otherwise what we get is a kind of software-enforced
hardware obsolescence, which is just wrong.
(The problem isn't limited to Microsoft, though. The rant might have
reasonably focused on them in the 1990s, but are they even relevant any
more?)
--Toby
The problem is people blindly upgrading their computer/OS/Software for no
real reason. I don't understand why you need to have the latest version of
most mature apps when very few people need or will use those new features.
Older apps and OS fly on new hardware, why upgrade?
Programmers target the machines that they expect to be the norm when their
software is released.