28 Mar 21
@Suzianne
There is a thing going on about that, running into barriers to increase the speed and power of CPU's, now the push is to actually downsize the monster programs with their million lines. If they pursued the old way of low level programming instead of the use of millions of modules hooked together which HAS to be inefficient so maybe we will see both ideas working together, bigger HD's and smaller but faster algorithms.
09 May 21
@suzianne saidAny currently available smart phone has more computing capacity than the mainframes which guided the moonshots. Memory was precious then, and code was tight.
Maybe sonhouse can tell us how much onboard RAM the Apollo modules had.
Should be interesting.
09 May 21
@sonhouse saidStart by paring down Microsoft. Code-bloat central, in my opinion. I'm still using a DOS-level word processor called XyWrite -- the .exe file is an incredibly slim 185 KB and it can do anything MS-Word can do. You just have to get used to a command line interface, instead of animated puppy-dog wizards and icon/buttons which look like they were designed by 13-yr old girls.
@Suzianne
There is a thing going on about that, running into barriers to increase the speed and power of CPU's, now the push is to actually downsize the monster programs with their million lines. If they pursued the old way of low level programming instead of the use of millions of modules hooked together which HAS to be inefficient so maybe we will see both ideas working together, bigger HD's and smaller but faster algorithms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XyWrite
11 May 21
@moonbus saidSadly enough that Information reaches me about 26 years late (that was when i wrote my Diplome thesis using Wordstar...)
Start by paring down Microsoft. Code-bloat central, in my opinion. I'm still using a DOS-level word processor called XyWrite -- the .exe file is an incredibly slim 185 KB and it can do anything MS-Word can do. You just have to get used to a command line interface, instead of animated puppy-dog wizards and icon/buttons which look like they were designed by 13-yr old girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XyWrite
14 May 21
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@russ saidYou should have got the 16k expansion funniest / saddest thing about the ZX81 was the disconnect between the picture on the cassette tape cover and the actual graphics if it loaded.
I learnt to program on a ZX 81 as a young lad.
1k is all you need.
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