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> His main argument was that the memory and CPU limitations helped curtail software feature bloat I think there's some truth to this - if you have a limited am
by stordoff 8y ago
> His main argument was that the memory and CPU limitations helped curtail software feature bloat
I think there's some truth to this - if you have a limited amount of RAM, you can't just throw RAM away and do the easy thing. You have to be careful with it. The flip side of that is of course one man's feature bloat is another man's valuable feature, and some things just _won't_ fit in the limited amount of RAM.
- sneakernets 8y agoSeems to be the "Usable, Extendable, Efficient - pick two" scenario at its core. I remember very well a word processor on C64 (GeOS Writer I think?) that would use its own disk as swap to get around memory limits. I eventually bought a memory expansion just to get around this, which wasn't cheap in the slightest. And that's just for text! It's stunning to me how inefficient text can be when every byte counts.