There is nothing wrong with Microsoft that a massive EMP strike could not
fix in .0008 nano seconds.
Perhaps, then it could be replaced with something that actually worked well
and was not designed on bloated code that is based on work stolen, and then
claimed as "new and better", but in practical
Actually, what Gates bought was a technical reference clone of CPM (by Digital
Research) modified to run on a 16 bit 8080 chip. Seattle Computing? Dont'
remember the company, and I believe the guy who did the (illegal) clone is now
dead. Flat-out copyright infringement that the Reagan adminis
> The problem was that traditionally spending a bunch of time optimizing code
> was wasted time because you could just wait for the hardware to get faster...
They always said that, but you don't have to spend much time optimizing to
get the 10x benefits. It's getting that last 10% out that reall
MS was notorious for rather poor code, on the whole. Excel was their first
best-in-class
product, if I recall. It came along rather late. MS specialized in 'good
enough', but quickly,
and high priced.
Get there first, don't (quite) get thrown out the door due to shoddy
workmanship, and sweep
> As I recall the story, a bastard-child division of IBM decided to produce
> the PC using CPM for the disk operating system. But the folks that owned
> CPM saw all those Big Blue dollar signs and got greedy.
The story is well-known. Gary Kildall (only owner of CP/M) thought the day
was too good
As I recall the story, a bastard-child division of IBM decided to produce
the PC using CPM for the disk operating system. But the folks that owned
CPM saw all those Big Blue dollar signs and got greedy. In the meantime,
Bill Gates had observed a demonstration of a disk operating system (forgot
If you looked at the actual machine code all those many years ago when I was
doing some piddly programming in C+, until it was optimized it was full of dead
space filled with no-op opcodes (do nothing, skip to the next opcode) since the
programming language set aside large amounts of data space
>systems originally written for 8 bit processors (thank you Microsoft)
>, if you remember the Millenium Bug scare (another product of Microsoft, by
>the way, the issue was known in 1970 by the mainframe people and fixed),
If nothing else, you now understand why I am sceptical of ANYTHING Bill Ga
Silicon reached it's speed limit more than a decade ago, and multi-core
processors are limited by the overhead of managing tasks -- at some point the
time needed to distribute and collect the processing threads is more than
running them consecutively.
I have also come to the conclusion that mos
More to the point, it's too complicated to write much of anything in machine
code anymore, due to the graphical interface, touch screen environment (plus
all the bloatware).
Software is orders of magnitude more complicated and difficult than hardware,
and we are stuck for the foreseeable future
Mostly BS by a guy trying to sell something. He's right about a few
things, many modern systems are more complicated and bloated than they
need to be -- precicsely because people buy into the sort of fad
architectures that he himself is selling.
Read "No Silver Bullet" essay by Fred Brooks.
Allan
I listen to the "Retro Computing Roundtable", some time ago in one of their
discussions they referenced the idea that optimizing code would improve the
speed of an application some ridiculous amount, like 10x or more. The problem
was that traditionally spending a bunch of time optimizing code w
Silicon computing has reached a plateau. They can continue to multi-core
things, but software cannot be multi-cored easily, or very thoroughly. The
current performance limit IS software efficiency.
Current high-end desktop hardware would be able to serve thousands of
users simultaneously, IF the
Dan and others in the IT field, Is this a thing?
https://www.softwarebusinessgrowth.com/doc/end-of-silicon-era-is-at-hand-software-about-to-change-in-big-way-0001
By Jay Valentine, ContingencySales.com
Moore’s Law means hardware gets about twice as fast every 24 months as
chips can have smaller
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