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From: video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
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Subject: Code to Data ratio
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Date: 25 May 91 10:07:10 GMT
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	We will always have 'new' exceptions that the continuing growth of
computing power allow us to handle.  A single keystroke remains about the
same amount of data, but as GUI's grow (in size, complexity and user base),
its meaning is extended.

	Finished programs of perfect regularity belong on a platonic plane.
'Creeping featurism' is an attempt to better match the real needs of real
users.

	Data streams through our systems, and is either temporal (and
therefore compact) or part of a large database that can be retrieved a piece
at a time from disk.

	When we buy DRAMs, they are for code, not data.  And shared libraries
will become ever more useful.

-- 
	Henry J. Cobb	video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  SFB Tyrant
	Ph# (512) 447-8957	1400 Rabb Rd.  Austin, TX 78704
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present" -Hobbes