Re: In defense of modern software (Re: Debian on an old PC)
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:12:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 2) Macintosh excepted, but it had it's own problems: the geniuses
> who wrote it had to be brilliant to squeeze all that greatness into
> a 64KB ROM, and the hacks they had to do mad it difficult to make
> multi-finder, do protected multi-tasking, and port the s/w to Power.
Reminds of the old farts who used to tell me how they'd fit 100 people
onto a system with 256K of memory. Each client would get allocated 2K.
:-)
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