August 17, 1981 issue.
It's amazing what those folks were able to do with such tiny amounts of memory.
Cheers,
Scott.
It's amazing what those folks were able to do with such tiny amounts of memory.
Cheers,
Scott.
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. |
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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. |