"I predict a take-over offer from "Toys are US" in the near future." Funny... I though they had too much market awareness to embark on such a risky strategy - owning Micro$haft would really drag their image down!! Regarding Micro$haft and 'programming', their insistence on using 'straight line' programming and seemingly being incapable of removing redundant code (okay, I accept that removing redundant code in straight line programming can be problematic, but not insurmountable). Nett result is 'bloatware' - programmes that are far bigger than they need to be and require increasingly more RAM to run them. Years ago, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, I used to use a wordprocessor called 'Tasword'. The computer had 48k RAM, which was enough to run the machine code with room for a fairly large document with many of the features you'd expect from a modern wordprocessor. The software company, Tasman, worked within the limits of the machine and could teach Micro$haft a thing or two about tidy programming!
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