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That assumes your not using some monstrosity ide that requires bleeding edge hardware to run COUGH oracle forms COUGH. We had to buy cutting edge pc's spend >£

That assumes your not using some monstrosity ide that requires bleeding edge hardware to run COUGH oracle forms COUGH. We had to buy cutting edge pc's spend >£2k on extra ram and £4k on 20 inch crt monitors to develop - the application would run on a 133MZ If you had less than 2 Blue screens per hour that was a good hour - This was early 90's btw.

jjrh 8y ago
90s and 2000s was a pretty different story. These days a 5 year old i7 with 16g of ram is pretty damn fast. Maybe it's a different story if you're running windows with a big IDE.
cr0sh 8y ago
I think you're mis-remembering your time period. 20" monitors weren't widely available until the mid-late 1990s; nor were P133 machines (P133 release was in June 1995; so for it to be considered mid-low end, late 90s would be more likely). Where I worked in the early 1990s (1992-ish), us developers fought over who would have the color terminals (Wyse 370/380) and who would have the monochrome ones (Wyse 50/60). I was low-man on the pole so I always got stuck with the low-spec terminal (though I still have an affinity today to amber VT220 text characters). Until I "wowed" the owner of the company (small shop) showing how to do windows, dialogs, etc in a terminal using a virtual buffer and some other "tricks". Then I was given one of the color terminals, to jazz our interface (which was mostly numbered menus and basic flat screens). At one point, I played around with the 16 color Textronix graphics mode you could pop into with the right escape sequence; I think I made a very slow Mandelbrot set generator (never showed that to him; our app was already pushing our dev hardware, which was an IBM RS/6000 desktop workstation running AIX we all shared via 9600 bps serial connections)...
- C1sc0cat 8y ago
  It was 93 and the gear we had was bleeding edge for the time - unlike the average developer who was on 100MZ or 133 at best The system was SIROS the system that helped manage the UK's SMDS network so we had budget for it. The 20 inch monitors where awesome for playing doom late at night

jjrh 8y ago

90s and 2000s was a pretty different story. These days a 5 year old i7 with 16g of ram is pretty damn fast. Maybe it's a different story if you're running windows with a big IDE.

cr0sh 8y ago

I think you're mis-remembering your time period. 20" monitors weren't widely available until the mid-late 1990s; nor were P133 machines (P133 release was in June 1995; so for it to be considered mid-low end, late 90s would be more likely). Where I worked in the early 1990s (1992-ish), us developers fought over who would have the color terminals (Wyse 370/380) and who would have the monochrome ones (Wyse 50/60). I was low-man on the pole so I always got stuck with the low-spec terminal (though I still have an affinity today to amber VT220 text characters). Until I "wowed" the owner of the company (small shop) showing how to do windows, dialogs, etc in a terminal using a virtual buffer and some other "tricks". Then I was given one of the color terminals, to jazz our interface (which was mostly numbered menus and basic flat screens). At one point, I played around with the 16 color Textronix graphics mode you could pop into with the right escape sequence; I think I made a very slow Mandelbrot set generator (never showed that to him; our app was already pushing our dev hardware, which was an IBM RS/6000 desktop workstation running AIX we all shared via 9600 bps serial connections)...

C1sc0cat 8y ago
It was 93 and the gear we had was bleeding edge for the time - unlike the average developer who was on 100MZ or 133 at best The system was SIROS the system that helped manage the UK's SMDS network so we had budget for it. The 20 inch monitors where awesome for playing doom late at night