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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (576357)	7/14/2010 9:32:49 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1575608

I remember my first basic compiler, a simple program with only the "print" statement was 10k. And you wonder why too many things are buggy, they are so large, they have to have software writing the software, where originally I'd code it with MASM or if it wasn't much, I'd do it in Octal. Geez, wirewrapped my first computer with an 8080A and the 8080A Bugbook. So many others had the 6800 Heathkit lol My Octal input keypad had more silicon in it than the 8080A and the 2102? ram chips... I saw a show many years ago, they still go through the Shuttle routines by hand rechecking and rechecking by many people looking at the original code.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (576357)	7/14/2010 11:20:24 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575608

>> It's better than Vista, that's for sure. Hell yes. But also more bloated than ever. >> Lots of companies bypassed Vista in favor of Windows 7. Including Intel. Windows XP is getting long in the tooth. We managed to get through VISTA without installing a single copy of it -- other than one in our office to test stuff on. What crap. >> 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?<?I> When I started working as a commercial programmer we basically had to make everything fit is 16K words of memory. You actually had to specify to the linker which modules were required in memory at the same time. It was insane. I'm sure some others here experienced the same nonsense. The thing that bothers me is that so much of what goes into W7 is not really adding to productivity so much. I guess if I worked where you do, I'd be all for it, though ;)