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A lot of our software really depends on things like fast disks and significant memory. I think we might have ended up with the development of memory-constrained
by dhosek 4mo ago
A lot of our software really depends on things like fast disks and significant memory. I think we might have ended up with the development of memory-constrained algorithms that don’t exist now, and computing would be very much a batch-mode endeavor rather than the interactive process we have now.
- bitwize 4mo agoIn 1969 we had Lisp, and the PDP-10. Interactive computing was very doable even then. I'm sure Stallman would have love for ITS on the 10 to have remained the default.
- pjmlp 4mo agoThe tragedy is that some folks 57 years later, still think their computers cannot handle something like Lisp, or languages with similar tooling.