Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[woodelf]

Fred Cisin wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:
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>>several decades we've seen hardware get bigger and faster by several
>>orders of magnitude, but software hasn't done anything of the sort.
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>Software HAS gotten bigger.
>Software has gotten SLOWER.
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>"Nobody programs in assembly language anymore, nor ever will again."
>                     - Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
>"If it isn't fast enough, throw hardware at it."
>                     - MICROS~1
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I think the problem is nobody DOC's assembly langauge programming or
have a GUI that you can use with bare hardware. I think software has kept
the same speed, because  the  value of  Memory size VS memory speed has been
mostly constant.
Ben alias woodelf.
PS. -- MICROS-1 must be origin of system crashes. :)