OT: Then vs Now Programming WAS: Re: AMD vs Intel memory managemement

[sean ritzler]

And the full source is under 70MB. Sure it's not a few floppies, but it
doesn't require a DVD.


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Callahan
<patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com>wrote:

> What kind of hardware support did Linux have 10 years ago? Today it runs
> basically everywhere without any screwing around. Driver support is
> incredible on modern Linux.
> On Jun 13, 2013 12:47 PM, "keith smith" <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I think some of it is bloat.  Look at Linux 10 years ago and look at it
>> now.
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>> I think the first time I installed Linux it came on 3 or maybe 5 micro
>> floppies. That was around 1997.  Now it comes on a DVD.
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>> Keith Smith
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>> --- On *Thu, 6/13/13, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com>* wrote:
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>> From: Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com>
>> Subject: OT: Then vs Now Programming WAS: Re: AMD vs Intel memory
>> managemement
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013, 12:28 PM
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>>  On Thursday, June 13, 2013 07:01:23 AM Lyle Tuttle wrote:
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>> In the 'old' days, I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission designing,
>> building and maintaining computer controlled experiments using radiation
>> from and located on the face of the reactor.....our SDS "mainframe" <G> ran
>> ALL experiments (including some x-ray diffraction projects in remote
>> locations) in real-time......that computer had 16K core memory.......and
>> people came from all over the world to see what we were doing....now a
>> watch has more memory.....
>>
>> Time flies, and the only constant is change......
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>> Lyle has brought up a question that is interesting to me. I hear stories
>> like this of these amazing things people did with computers 30 and 40 years
>> ago and then the comment always comes up like "And we only had xx kb of
>> ram".
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>> So my question is, was programming in what ever language they used back
>> then more efficient and today's languages are seriously bloated and require
>> more ram, or do programmers today not know how to program as efficiently?
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>> Or what gives?
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