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Something that's too big today will seem trivially small soon of course.
by abstractbill 18y ago
Something that's too big today will seem trivially small soon of course.
- swannodette 18y agoThose giant 800k floppy disk games, those really amazing 160x120 QT movies at 8fps, remember how colossal Myst was, a whole CD-ROM!
- silentbicycle 18y agoI remember getting 1 mb of memory for my 386. A whole megabyte of memory! (Firefox is usig 110mb at the moment - I started it about five minutes ago.)
- silentbicycle 18y agoThere are other constraints on the size of a program, though. All other things equal, larger programs tend to be harder to maintain, and proportionally buggier. This is completely independent of the cost of memory, the size of processor caches, etc. -- There's nothing like Moore's law affecting the human brain's ability to understand sprawling, tangled code bases. Also: Bugs in device drivers tend to affect stability much more than in userland programs.