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

[James Mcphee]

All of the above.  With the resources available, we don't bother
programming with limited pages of memory or do much disk caching and other
tricks to maximize.


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:

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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.....
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> 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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