Modern infrastructure made waste too easy. Resource limits that started as temporary safety buffers can harden into requirements unless teams keep asking what the system is actually doing.
This is nonsense. Old software was not fast. Computers used to take minutes to start up. That’s not an exaggeration. MS Word could easily take 30 seconds to open.
Obviously if you run it on modern hardware it’s going to be lightning fast, but not because the authors cared more about performance and efficiency than we do now.
This is nonsense. Old software was not fast. Computers used to take minutes to start up. That’s not an exaggeration. MS Word could easily take 30 seconds to open.
Obviously if you run it on modern hardware it’s going to be lightning fast, but not because the authors cared more about performance and efficiency than we do now.
Old software on new hardware is… Try to realize how bad hardware was in 70s…