Originally Posted by
Wogster
I remember when we moved from cassette tapes to 5¼" floppy disks and thought that was the greatest thing ever, a whole 170K of storage space, what would you do with it all. I was programming in Commie Basic in those days, and what we could do with 64K of memory(32K available to programs) and a 170K floppy drive, and a 2MHz processor now takes 2GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive and a pair of 2GHz processors and it takes 4times as long to boot, and seems to run about half the speed, but it looks a lot fancier....
WordStar, at less than 78K did almost everything that MS Word does, except graphics. The whole program was on one of those 78k floppies and ran on CP/M. Later, with MSDOS, as RAM got larger, a "virtual drive" could be set up in RAM, and WS loaded into the VD, for a much faster process.
I think programming has gotten sloppy and we have huge programs because we have large storage available to us, removing the need for precise programming. JMHO, and I am NOT a programmer.