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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (576344)	7/14/2010 8:52:23 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575502

Inode, > I think it is the bloated Windows 7 crap MSFT is pushing. It's better than Vista, that's for sure. Lots of companies bypassed Vista in favor of Windows 7. Including Intel. Windows XP is getting long in the tooth. > One of the apps I wrote back in the early 90s is still running in a few sites, and I had occasion to deal with one of them today. That software actually could run comfortably in 64k. Those were the days. There has to be computer science scholars all around academia who do studies on where the memory has gone. I used to run a word processor on a 64K computer. Documents were one byte per character. No more, no less. Now even a simple 1-page letter written in MS Word takes up 31K. Of course WYSIWYG has a lot to do with it (remember that acronym?), but 31K? Tenchusatsu