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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Big Disks  &  NO AU/X is NOT vapourware!!!
Summary: Horses and barn doors
Message-ID: <1456@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 88 03:08:10 GMT
References: <273@afit-ab.arpa> <76000103@uiucdcsp> <1543@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
> But there is one thing I am wondering.  Will the advent of larger floppies and
> greater memory prevent people from writing shorter more efficient programs?  
> Will there be an outpour of sloppy algorithms?

Too late. There already has been. How much of today's software won't even
try to run in under 200K all to itself?

200K is really quite a big chunk of memory, you know. It's more memory than
the original Mac had... ROM and RAM combined. Look how much they did with
that with the toolbox, O/S, and system stack in there as well.

It's not restricted to the Mac, BTW. I'm dreading the flood of software that
requires more than 512K CHIP memory in the Amiga once Obese Agnes gets out.

*More than 512K*? How long since 512K was mainframe-class memory and people
were talking about programming the world in 64K? You could run Version 7
UNIX in 256K on a PDP-11. Geeze.
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