It's just me showing my age. Some of my favorite games of all time fitted on ROMs smaller than 20K. Hell my first machine had 16K and I was over the moon to go 64K. I was cramming whole disk indexes in memory!

I have this conspiracy theory. M$ takes kickbacks from Intel to write more and more bloated software. This in turn fuels the need for ever faster processors. Look at the reality. In terms of memory you needed DOS <640K ;-), Win 3.0 4M, 95 16M, 98 64M, 2000 256M, XP 512M with processors to match.

I just find it wrong that you need 20 K to store 12 bytes of text plus Times New Roman as the default font. It seems analagous to using the Titanic to make crushed ice for your drink.

In reply to Re^4: A copyeditor needs help to get started with a Perl project by tachyon
in thread A copyeditor needs help to get started with a Perl project by wordsmith

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