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Bloat in Software (IRIX- 1993)

• deleted 2y ago
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• dekhn 2y ago
  The mistake was that thinking the limited Indy hardware was supposed to run a real operating system. IRIX was a real operating system and to run it, you gave it max hardware. To do otherwise would be to put a single stroke lawnmower engine into a porsche 959.
  • PaulHoule 2y ago
    I remember Geoff Fox having two twins from eastern Europe attempt a demo on a big SGI supercomputer in the 1990s which concluded with "never buy a gigabyte of cheap RAM". I knew another prof who bought an small SGI machine but couldn't do anything with it because it didn't have enough RAM, he left it plugged into the the ethernet and power for a year with the empty string for the root password.
    • dekhn 2y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_C._Fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_C._Fox ? I used to work with him during the Computational Grid era.
      • PaulHoule 2y ago
        Yep, this was when he was at Syracuse.
• bigfatkitten 2y ago
  > Indy: an Indigo without the 'go' They couldn't have named that machine more accurately if they tried.