| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: Nostalgia and computers |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:56:15 +0000 |
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|I'd barely be able to install Visual C++ and Word! Let alone all the games!
|Our 540 is almost full and the laptop's 120 only has about 3 megs left (had to
|zip some old, and not quite deletable things to fit some new stuff on).
|
|I know that up untill 2 years ago we had an AT 8086 with only 20 megs and it was
|terrible!
Well....
Unlike all the oversized, badly written piles of.....
(I will not mention the company beginning with ... <Gags himself>)
The QL has always had limited memory, so programmers optimise for size and
speed.
Writers of modern software think "Bah, why bother, it'll run, even if it
does need 20Megs of free memory...)
My QL has only 968K (yes K).
People on the QL still hold firmly onto the discipline required to write
small functional code.
Hell, the main QL OS (which contains such wonders as window control, user
transparent device drivers and pre-emptive multi-tasking) only takes up...
(Fanfare please)
48K of ROM. (with extentions loaded into RAM, add another 200 - 300K.)
Beat that Microsoft/OS2/whatever...
DAMN!!!!! I said I wasn't going to say the MS word.....
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