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Tuxman:
If I'm not alone, why does the world prefer to write horrible software?
KynloStephen66515:
a) it had a 20 Mb footprint; I know people act as if disk space is infinite, but it seemed an awful lot for a launcher, the more so as the first PC I ever used (in 1988) only had a 20 Mb hard disk. For everything.
-rjbull (August 27, 2018, 04:22 PM)
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Ha! I find it amazing that I'm not the only one around who can't understand why the solution to performance problems is to just throw more hardware at it...
-Tuxman (August 27, 2018, 04:41 PM)
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The difference between then and now, is that 20MB was a huge amount of data, and hardware was expensive. 20MB these days is literally nothing...I have single images that are bigger than that in file size.
Tuxman:
Why would you want to only be able to store the same number of applications on a much larger drive?
Deozaan:
20MB these days is literally nothing...
-Stephen66515 (August 28, 2018, 01:05 PM)
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tomos:
^ let's not get literal about this Deozaan :Thmbsup:
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