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From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce)
Subject: Re: Commodore 64/128 and Microsoft Windows
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 15:56:10 GMT

In article <41eihm$ai@news.acns.nwu.edu>, Stephen Judd <sjudd@nwu.edu> wrote:

>	There has been a fundamental shift in attitude regarding
>computing, and in particular, programming.
>	"Back in our day" the hardware was fixed for long periods of
>time.  The C64 production run was what, 10-12 years?  And in that time
>there was essentially zero modification to the hardware.  What that
>means is that software people are forced to think of more clever and
>efficient ways of doing things.
>[...lots of dead-on stuff deleted...]
>	(I also think a 100MHz Pentium is overkill for just about everything ;).
>
>>Thank God we still have our Commodores.

I summarize this phenomenon as follows:

"Bruce's Law: If computing capacity is doubling every year,
              then software bloat is tripling."

Just imagine ACE running on a 100MHz Pentium... or even a 20MHz 65816.

Keep on Hackin'!

-Craig Bruce
csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca