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Re: Food for thought?

From Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Food for thought?
Date 2020-09-09 21:21 +0000
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On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:20:50 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2020-09-09, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
> 
>> gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> schrieb:
>>
>>> My first home PC, in 1987, was an Amstrad 1512 with two 5" floppy
>>> disks.
>>>
>>> The second home PC, 1992, was a Viglen with a 40MB HD.
>>>
>>> 40MB ? ? ?
>>>
>>> ... I just decided to delete the history from Microsoft Edge and was
>>> warned that there were 327 MB of data associated!
>>
>> Bloat, bloat and even more bloat.
> 
> It's a variation of Parkinson's Law: programs grow to fill up all
> available disk space, memory, and CPU cycles.

I think Gareth hasn't learned about caches...



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Food for thought? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-09 14:54 +0100
  Re: Food for thought? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-09-09 14:45 +0000
    Re: Food for thought? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-09 17:20 +0000
      Re: Food for thought? Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-09 21:21 +0000
        Re: Food for thought? gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-09 22:38 +0100
          Re: Food for thought? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-10 17:54 +0100

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