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From: uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Code to Data ratio
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Date: 26 May 91 19:10:20 GMT
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video@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) writes:


>	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

On the other hand, faster processors mean that people become used
to larger 1-bit, then 8-bit, then 24-bit, then z-buffered, then
double-buffered screens, and the time you spend waiting for page
faults becomes more tedious, and.....

...  data seems to be growing to.

-- 
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