this app could be 10mb total
10 MB!? What kind of bloated code is that! WordPerfect and Lotus 123 used to fit on a single 720 KB double density 5.25" floppy! The command.com DOS 6.22 operating system was less than 64 KB. Assembly language FTW!
Make programming great again.
No really, large harddrives, huge amounts of ram, etc.. they are all great but it has made programmers lazy.
No really, large harddrives, huge amounts of ram, etc.. they are all great but it has made programmers lazy.
I do miss the days where the constraints of computing forced programmers to really know their shit, think extremely creatively and optimize the fuck out of their code. I still remember upgrading my HDD from a 40 MB Western Digital to an 80 MB Quantum and thinking I wouldn't be filling that drive for years to come. Nowadays a single potato-quality video file can eat the entire drive. We really did become lazy and reliant on ever increasing resource growth. We need to go back.
Hah, yeah. I remember my first 20GB HDD (previously had smaller drives like in the 500mb range). I thought I would never be able to fill it. Then napster came out.....
I remember some video about a playstation (?) game where it did some realllly weird shit to push the 3D capabilities beyond what the engineers intended, by reallocating some space and bandwidth onboard the playstation console itself. Do you remember watching that by chance?