Re^4: A copyeditor needs help to get started with a Perl project

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.

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Re^5: A copyeditor needs help to get started with a Perl project by gaal (Parson) on Nov 04, 2004 at 15:51 UTC
Oh, I used to own a machine with 1 kilobyte myself; and like the Titanic analogy :) But I was merely pointing out that the bloat in the exported data is negligible compared to the size of the environment required to access it in its native format. As for your conspiracy theory: I had the same thoughts! I once calculated that Wintel share about $4G a year between them just by making software that sucks.	[reply]

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Re^5: A copyeditor needs help to get started with a Perl project
by gaal (Parson) on Nov 04, 2004 at 15:51 UTC

But I was merely pointing out that the bloat in the exported data is negligible compared to the size of the environment required to access it in its native format.

As for your conspiracy theory: I had the same thoughts! I once calculated that Wintel share about $4G a year between them just by making software that sucks.

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