16 May
1997
16 May
'97
1:52 p.m.
Hi Sam,
There was a recent posting to a newsgroup wherein the author
claimed one couldn't compile a program with a particular
compiler in less than 8 Mbytes. The fact that people were
doing it with 2 and 4 Mbytes was apparently of no relevance.
It brought to mind that I have a Pascal compiler for an older
machine that works very well in 24 Kbytes. Something has
gotten completely out of whack.
Hrrumph!
It's amazing that the _Journal_ still exists at all! It's (original)
philosophy is the complete antithesis of current industry practise.
Used to be, if you could write small, fast code, not only were you
good, you survived!
Nowadays, its "A couple of meg here, a couple of meg there,
pretty soon we're talking about real memory usage".
Its totally fricken pathetic, isn't it? I remember when whole operating
systems resided in less than 64K. Now, you need 64 megs for all the
pretty GUI stuff and sound clips. Totally pathetic.