Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out-terminal question

From: Randall R Schulz (rschulz_at_sonic.net)
Date: 10/28/04

  • Next message: Allen: "Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out-terminal question" 
    To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:22:15 -0700

    On Wednesday 27 October 2004 19:48, Allen wrote:
    > > I worked on or sold all of the machines you mentioned except the
    > > Collins. Sold the first Eclipse Computer in Oklahoma. Worked on PDP
    > > 7. 9. 8 and 11's. Used in Process Control. Great machines but my PC
    > > is more powerful but I miss being able to control a whole plant in
    > > 16KB of memory and 256 KB of disk. --
    > > Russ
    >
    > GUI and Memory hogging kernels made this thing happen, kill those and
    > you're set.

    Right. Toss that kernel and you're set. What's more, you won't have to
    worry about viruses, worms, ad-ward or other malware. No bugs, either,
    other than the ones in the machine code you write yourself.

    Oh, yeah. Kill those memory hogging kernels and GUIs and life will be
    grand.

    It's easy to criticize, but not so easy to create useful software.

    Software now does more than it used to. It has to be bigger. Software
    engineering is like any other kind of engineering--it's all about
    trade-offs. Furthermore, optimization of any kind requires effort from
    an engineer, and that effort costs. Memory, on the other hand, keeps
    getting cheaper. It makes perfect sense to allow programs to become
    larger when the alternative would cost more than the RAM that could be
    saved by making them smaller.

    And users continue to demand more from the software they use. More
    functions, more capacity and more speed. Those things cannot be
    achieved without consuming more computational resources, including
    faster CPUs, larger disks and more RAM.

    If it's more important to you to keep from buying more capacious
    computing hardware, then you'll have to do with the software of
    yesterday.

    RRS 

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