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

[Nathan England]

On Thursday, June 13, 2013 07:01:23 AM Lyle Tuttle wrote:


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......     






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".

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?

Or what gives?
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