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- From: jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Web browsers ?
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- Date: 10 Mar 1996 16:27:01 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- Jonas Ekstr|m (d1joe@dtek.chalmers.se) wrote:
- : sagge@ts.umu.se (Mattias Sandgren) writes:
- :
- : [snip]
- :
- : >Buy a 540+ MB harddrive and at
- : >least an 8 MB SIMM and you won't have any problems with it.
- : >They're dirt cheap these days. The days when 512KB chip and
- : >floppies were awesome are over..
- :
- : [snip]
- :
- : However, the reasoning above sounds a lot like Microsoft to me. Why
- : does everything have to be so bloated? I think that a program that
- : uses less resources always has an edge, more is left for all the other
- : stuff you want to run. And this is true no matter how much memory
- : or how fast a machine you have.
-
- Be careful in this perception. Yes, it is virtually inarguable that
- a program that uses fewer resources than its competitors is a good
- edge to have. However, throwing out features to get that edge is
- not such a good thing (unless there's a compelling reason, like
- performance becomes to sluggish or cost becomes to high).
-
- For the features that many users want today, the days of the 512KB
- RAM and 1 880KB floppy Amiga really are over. Even the lowly 7Mhz
- 68000 shows its age in some of today's applications.
-
- Microsoft is our favorite target because they manage to get the least
- amount of features from largest amount of resources. But other
- operating systems and their applications have run into the same
- problem....how best to add features to make our product competitive
- without requiring major upgrades of our customer bases' hardware?
-
- A growing software technology cannot be sustained on a static hardware
- technology.
-
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- | Jason Peacock, a poor student | Jason_Peacock@fcircus.sat.tx.us |
- | majoring in Computer Science | jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu |
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