Post #905832
2026-04-03 01:08 UTC
Replies (10)
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@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-03 05:18
@colinstu Electron app authors be like
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-03 06:13
@colinstu In the era of the first Pentium processors we had 8 MiB (yes, Mibi) of RAM quite often, and 16 MiB the lucky ones. Had a colleague who wrote a memory leaking application, because he wrote convoluted C++ code, instantiating too many out of control classes - the style that I would later witness with Java. When he got a new job position he was triumphant: "Ha! Now I have a PC with 256 megs!". He didn't realize that any space can be filled.
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-04-03 06:33
@colinstu So I really didn't need that university algorithms course after all?
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@ariels@hachyderm.io 2026-04-03 07:18
@colinstu doesn't count if your program was correct.
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@stevewfolds@mastodon.world 2026-04-03 10:08
@colinstu C programming on 64KB w/Z80 cpu.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-04-03 10:53
@colinstu Wot happens if you tell an AI "see this code base? - make it do the same thing but a few orders of magnitude faster and cheaper".
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@j5v@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 16:06
@colinstu As someone who remembers packing bits and worrying about approaching address &A6F0, the reach for petabytes worries me that someone is doing it wrong.
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@cliffordheath@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 20:56
@colinstu Running Unix on a PDP/11 in 1981, we had to upgrade the memory from 96kB to 256kB to support three users. That's kilobytes, not gigabytes. Queensland University had a 16 port terminal device with students on the same hardware
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@trademark@fosstodon.org 2026-04-04 16:11
@colinstu many times, except I could never afford to actually do it :( For instance TSP-type problems go from O(n!) to 2^n if you also use 2^n of memory.
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@michael@westergaard.social 2026-04-03 06:47
Microsoft of the 1990s says hi