whenever I see BDS I read it as

have we not seen that slick tight code.. the brash young Billy crowed about, balloon into the n-million lines: in a bloody OS!? ... (not some gigundo-App.)

Sure, new high-res graphics etc. but in practice: has not practice become sloppier?, thus ever-bloated--with all the consequent problems of Finding, amidst tens-of-thousands: those regular 'buffer overflows, created by 'Team' fragmentation of every project?'? (and how many new grads of computer-munging have ever read The Mythical Man-Month?)

I mean: when Billy decided that "640K is LOTS of memory", (so let's make that the next-10-year Std) was not already.. Moore's Law a shibboleth?
20/20 hindsight and all, it's eerie to contemplate just this odd happenstance: an innocent 'BDS' TLA mentioned here, leading to comment about the random loss of just One promising innovator.

(Then I imagine all the talent (and their discoveries) adsorbed into M/Soft and, simply buried.)
All these Years! and M/Soft remains: the Pinnacle of sustained-Mediocrity. They HAD the Power to rapidly excel/advance on all fronts--controlled by an arrogant/rich child-dropout
whos aims were: merely to be The Monopolist. In that he succeeded as all of the world Lost (unknowable Things.)
(The World got.. DLL-Hell, bogus drivers-roulette, inane Naming of processes!--merely to be Different--and All Those Oversights in every design!)

It seems another clear indictment of the Vulture-capitalist process: which always places the Greediest/not the Smartest at the apex of all bizness pyramids :-/

Post #392,724 by crazy 8/1/14 4:53:07 PM 8/1/14 4:58:11 PM Reply	whenever I see BDS I read it as Brain Damaged Software, my first non-Unix C compiler. http://www.bdsoft.com/resources/bdsc.html http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C Edited by crazy Aug. 1, 2014, 04:58:11 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #392,726 by Ashton 8/1/14 6:07:33 PM Reply	Ed Ziemba.. A co-worker at BDS ... last-name; one I'd heard; odd-names I seem to recall better than most. (You have to Find:(name) within that link) Was a 25 yo MIT grad; as you see in those few sentences: had he not drowned in a weird snorkeling accident ... In a Pond!? way-back: Well.. if not hyperbole: imagine OS X vastly-earlier? Some Z-guy steals all of Jobs' early-thunder? Strange Universe we inhabit: it forks; every mSec.
Post #392,733 by Another Scott 8/1/14 7:23:28 PM Reply	InfoWorld had a short story on him. August 17, 1981 issue. It's amazing what those folks were able to do with such tiny amounts of memory. Cheers, Scott.
Post #392,743 by Ashton 8/2/14 4:45:25 AM Reply	Ever since WordStar in 58k.. have we not seen that slick tight code.. the brash young Billy crowed about, balloon into the n-million lines: in a bloody OS!? ... (not some gigundo-App.) Sure, new high-res graphics etc. but in practice: has not practice become sloppier?, thus ever-bloated--with all the consequent problems of Finding, amidst tens-of-thousands: those regular 'buffer overflows, created by 'Team' fragmentation of every project?'? (and how many new grads of computer-munging have ever read The Mythical Man-Month?) I mean: when Billy decided that "640K is LOTS of memory", (so let's make that the next-10-year Std) was not already.. Moore's Law a shibboleth? 20/20 hindsight and all, it's eerie to contemplate just this odd happenstance: an innocent 'BDS' TLA mentioned here, leading to comment about the random loss of just One promising innovator. (Then I imagine all the talent (and their discoveries) adsorbed into M/Soft and, simply buried.) All these Years! and M/Soft remains: the Pinnacle of sustained-Mediocrity. They HAD the Power to rapidly excel/advance on all fronts--controlled by an arrogant/rich child-dropout whos aims were: merely to be The Monopolist. In that he succeeded as all of the world Lost (unknowable Things.) (The World got.. DLL-Hell, bogus drivers-roulette, inane Naming of processes!--merely to be Different--and All Those Oversights in every design!) It seems another clear indictment of the Vulture-capitalist process: which always places the Greediest/not the Smartest at the apex of all bizness pyramids :-/ {sigh} Can't we do Anything? beyond mere system-gaming cleverness, as Brilliance gets no Respect (certainly little Power.) We won't handle the looming existential matters via this Model of stark-Incompetence. I wot.
Post #392,739 by a6l6e6x 8/1/14 11:36:18 PM Reply	Good catch! No wonder there was a vague recollection of BDS. But, back in those days, I used an assembler. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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