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Originally Posted by pewterbot9
I had hoped that with the advent of cell phones and other miniaturized mobile devices such as GPS, this would've changed, and inspired renewed interest in tight code. *sigh*
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Ah, nope. Cellphones being released today have faster processors and more memory than a decent computer ten years ago. My first laptop (HP N5295 from 2000, 850Mhz CPU, 256M RAM) was spiffy then, but only manages to be useful now, because its running linux. Software is continuously being loaded down with more and more pointless bells, whistles, bling, glitz, not to mention bad object oriented design, bloating programs and making them run slower.
I still have an Amiga (66Mhz CPU, 32M RAM, yes, that Megahertz and Megabytes) that works perfectly well for the usual desktop activities -- word processing, desktop publishing, web browsing, graphics editing, etc. Good software design makes a big difference.