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From: coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MacClassic & System 7.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.194350.1551@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 19:43:50 GMT
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>**FLAME ON**
>It would take a person in a computer science department.....
>The only reason that software becomes unusable on a 4MB machine
>is because developer's have forgotten how to write small code. An
>inordinate number of applications that are out today are just plain
>PIGS. 4MEG???? 32K was a big damn deal 10 years ago; 640K in the
>PC made me drool. Now, I assume that something like Mathematica
>would need some larger amount of memory than, say, MacWrite ever
>did, but dieing with 4MB???? Just because hardware technology
>progresses orders of magnitude faster than software *technology*
>does not mean that we compenstate with software *size* and design
>*stupidity*.
>
>People who declare 50 Str255's in a program are probably doing it
>wrong!
>**FLAME OFF**

   10 years ago, how many graphic desktop applications were there?


coxr@en.ecn.purdue.edu       American Online : Rich Kid
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