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Re: ATARI is crap!

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Harry Potter wrote on 30. January 2016:
>
> On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 4:05:39 PM UTC-5, Your Name wrote:
>> Yep, the good ol' days of programming, when you had a whopping 1K of
>> RAM to play with, so had to program efficiently ... unlike these days
>> of lazy, over-bloated, inefficient code.  :-(
>> 
>> Write the "Hellow World" program on a VIC 20 BASIC and it takes up a
>> few bytes. Write it on a modern computer in something RealBASIC, build
>> the application, and it takes up a megabyte or more, thanks mostly to
>> all the pointlessly included libraries that aren't even needed.
>
> I agree totally!  Optimize a modern game for speed by 30%, and you will
> be able to do 30% more special effects on a certain computer or the
> same on a 30% slower computer, so optimizing can *still* help.  :) Just
> my opinion.

Back in the days I used Windows (until 2001) I already noticed that for
example the installation of a graphic card driver was pure bloat. I seem
to recall the package had some 200 MB already.

I let it extract but not complete (asked to accept the EULA at that
point) and looked into the %TEMP% directory where it unpacked
itself. Copied some .ini, .inf, .ocx, .drv and a few other files
elsewhere, and aborted the installation (which cleaned itself up). Then
just right clicked the .inf file and it would install just the driver which
worked after a reboot. And none of the flash animation bloat what would
had otherwise come with it to waste disk space.

I would assume today it's even worse. You probably don't get a GPU driver
smaller than 1GB? *g*
-- 
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
as I have to reboot my computer.

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Re: ATARI is crap! "Adelbert Affenstaat" <a@ff.e> - 2016-01-29 22:24 +0100
  Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-30 12:36 +1300
    Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 08:08 -0700
      Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:02 +1300
        Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0700
          Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:39 +1300
            Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 18:06 -0700
              Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 17:49 +1300
              Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-30 22:17 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 19:38 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 07:35 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:24 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-01-31 19:45 -0700
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 16:31 +1300
                Re: ATARI is crap! Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2016-02-05 10:49 -0600
                Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-06 09:57 +1300
  Re: ATARI is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 10:56 -0800
    Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 10:06 +1300
      Re: ATARI is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-30 15:26 -0800
        Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-31 13:37 +1300
        Re: ATARI is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-31 17:49 -0500
          Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-01 13:29 +1300
            Re: ATARI is crap! NOSPAM.Kurt.Weiske@f1.n770.z1199.fidonet.org (Kurt Weiske) - 2016-02-02 06:58 +1200
              Re: ATARI is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-02-03 09:31 +1300
  Re: ATARI is crap! Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2016-01-31 21:56 +0100

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