It seems like this is a good thing. Not bothering with intense hand-optimization means we can get more done and focus on designs that are more flexible and easier to work with. On Jun 13, 2013 12:31 PM, "James Mcphee" wrote: > All of the above. With the resources available, we don't bother > programming with limited pages of memory or do much disk caching and other > tricks to maximize. > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Nathan England wrote: > >> ** >> >> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 07:01:23 AM Lyle Tuttle wrote: >> >> In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission designing, >> building and maintaining computer controlled experiments using radiation >> from and located on the face of the reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" ran >> ALL experiments (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote >> locations) in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and >> people came from all over the world to see what we were doing....now a >> watch has more memory..... >> >> Time flies, and the only constant is change...... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Lyle has brought up a question that is interesting to me. I hear stories >> like this of these amazing things people did with computers 30 and 40 years >> ago and then the comment always comes up like "And we only had xx kb of >> ram". >> >> >> >> So my question is, was programming in what ever language they used back >> then more efficient and today's languages are seriously bloated and require >> more ram, or do programmers today not know how to program as efficiently? >> >> >> >> Or what gives? >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >