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Thread #147800 Message #3427928
Posted By: Rob Naylor
29-Oct-12 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: You think Your Hard Drive Is Big Enough?
Subject: RE: BS: You think Your Hard Drive Is Big Enough?
When the Physics Dept mainframe at my uni had 8 kb of memory (yes, 8 kb for the whole Dept, back in 1973) then you HAD to write tight code.
When my employer's R & D people delivered my group's new Integrated Navigation System software in about 1990, we found that when loaded the software included over 700 Mb of gash code!