[oclug] Save the Limited Computer Resources

[Gilles J. Seguin]

Vic Gedris wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Francis Pinteric wrote:
> 
> > However, what I've really been musing about lately is along the same
> > lines. We constantly see programmes becoming larger and larger
> > filling all the available resources. More resources are added, and
> > still they fill, quicker than before. Memory in machines have for
> > some time now been significantly larger than 640K and for some
> > programmes the source code won't fit on a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy.

I do not understand that one either.
Personal Editor was fitting under 64KB
Macro assembler was fitting under 64KB

Now, we have a super font manager and still don't know what to do
with colormap resource, where are the standard.

> You'd save precious bandwidth/typing time/storage/etc if you spelled it
> "programs" not "programmes".  ;-)

Well, a word with 2.4 thousand years behind it.
In those times, paper was not cheap, what a waste.
Thinks for the suggestion.