-=> mark lewis wrote to Andrew Leary <=-

 ml> oh, they read it but they didn't pay attention... instead they
 ml> interpreted and/or assigned their own specs... that is and always has
 ml> been the downfall of hobbiest coders :(  sadly, i, too, am one of
 ml> those... at least until i don't know how many years ago... since then,
 ml> the code that i've written has endevored to follow the actual specs as
 ml> far as it could... the really troublesome problem that i've faced,
 ml> personally over the years, is how so many terminals and users could be
 ml> handled by machines with only 64K of RAM and yet, today, it takes a gig
 ml> or more of RAM to barely service just one miniscule user :(

That was back when programmers took the time to conserve resources,
because at the time RAM and disk space were EXTREMELY expensive.  Now
that prices have dropped drastically, people don't seem to notice that
they need 4 times the RAM to run the program, or 16 times the disk space
to store it on.  My first computer (an original Tandy Color Computer)
came with a whole 32K of RAM, and used a cassette recorder to save/load
programs.  I remember how exiting it was when they finally came out with
a floppy disk drive for it.

Andrew

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