A related question "Do current programmers know how to write programs with low memory requirements ?". When I started out, the mini computers were 16 bit and t

A related question "Do current programmers know how to write programs with low memory requirements ?". When I started out, the mini computers were 16 bit and there was a limit to program size. You could do a lot within those limits, but once in a great while I did exceed the limits and the compile (if lucky) would fail or the program would dump. That was well before GUIs. I believe the GUI portion of a program are the largest use of memory, so I do not even know if people today can survive without GUIs :)