On 29/12/16 14:04, Anton Aylward wrote:
My first computer was the company mini with 256K ram for an entire
office of 20 or more people :-)
*sigh* Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
I didn't mean it that way ... :-) But it taught me that if I used resources recklessly, it impacted on everyone else. Nowadays, the youngsters seem to assume that computer power and ram is near-enough infinite and who cares if your algorithm is grossly inefficient ... Whereas if you come from an era where you regularly hit the buffers of what was available, you tend to write tight code without thinking. My Windows PC a (good) few years back had THREE office suites, WordPerfect, MS Office, and Open Office. And all three of them had this habit of pre-loading large chunks into ram on the assumption that I was going to use them. When in reality I rarely used any of them, but they all used up resource I could ill afford to spare. If all my programs assume infinite resources ... well if you divide your computer by infinite demand you get a hung system ... :-) (sounds like my linux system when it boots :-) Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org