1 Jan
1998
1 Jan
'98
4:47 a.m.
On Wed, 31 Dec 1997, John Higginbotham wrote:
It was nice to be able to run a program off one
floppy, and never worrying
about running out of memory, even if you only had 128k/256k. But, memory
prices got cheaper, shoot, everything got cheaper, and now we need a
supercomputer just to run a word processor like Word 97. I can understand
utilizing more system resources for new and better (not to mention useful)
features, but it looks to me like people these days are just throwing in
options because they can.
That is one special aspect of this hobby. We can marvel at the technical
brilliance of machines made just 10 years ago that were a fraction of the
speed and had a fraction of the memory and storage of today's computers
yet provided the same functionality. This is a realization that only
those who lived through that era of computing or those who enjoy this
hobby can share.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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