Re: EGCS (off-topic, sort of)
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From: Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET>
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> 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, you're right, but I think it will be less than 5 years.
M$'s efforts seem to be geared toward "forcing" the purchase of
new more powerful computer equipment every one or two years just to
maintain the level of performance we have become accustomed to.
On the other hand, I'll bet those C64 "Hello World" programs didn't have
hidden
flight simulators and shirtless jpegs of Bill G. How can we go back to plain
old
"Hello World" after we've seen those?
Regards,
Irv
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