OpenEuphoria

Re: EGCS (off-topic, sort of)

• Posted by Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET> May 06, 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. D." <filexfer3 at JUNO.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: EGCS (off-topic, sort of)


> >    That occupies 1Mbyte or less of disk space.
> >    This appears to be a rare critter indeed.
>
> Why do you care that it occupies less than 1M?

I care cause of the trend to code bloat. I expect it's possible in 20 yrs, a
beginner's "hello world" program will need 5megs for itself and a 2gig OS to
run,, and prolly some 16MP-2Ghz puter. I could put my old C64 (1Mhz with 32K
of free 500ns ram) up against the 586-133 (133Mhz with 12meg of 60ns ram)
running win95 any time, and the C64 would redraw it's windows faster every
time. You know MS recommends you get 64Megs of ram minimum to run Win2000,
plus 64Meg for the applications? That's 64,000 times more memory than my
first computer.

Kat