[Tfug] Cheap Memory

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 20 Dec 2007 at 18:10, Bexley Hall  wrote:

> If you want to see just how much of your machine
> you are "giving up" to code bloat, etc., try running
> old apps on "today's hardware".
> 
> E.g., I used Brief (by Underware) as my text editor
> under DOS on a 16MHz 386 and it *flew*.  On a *50*
> MHz machine it was so fast that it was UNUSABLE!
> I dread to think what it would be like on a 3GHz
> machine (i.e., you could edit files BEFORE you
> started typing!  :> )

dBASE IV 1.5 wouldn't run on machines faster than 33mhz until they issued a 
patch.  It used clock-ticks to name-and-open temp.files, and on machines that 
fast it tried to open two files with the same name.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
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