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Re: Dropbox rant

From Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject Re: Dropbox rant
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
References <7c24bccb-bc9e-450c-bb8f-9424e06f6209@googlegroups.com> <odg8ge$amg$1@dont-email.me>
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Date 2017-04-23 04:50 -0500

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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/2017 1:24 PM, Mark Wills wrote:
>> <rant>
>> How, in the name of all that is holy, can Dropbox.exe
>> need 98,540 *KILOBYTES* of RAM to do its thing?
>> 
>> It's not much more than a glorified FTP Client/Server.
>> 
>> FFS.
>> </rant>
> 
> That is an illustration of why Forth is not popular, there is absolutely 
> no interest  or even knowledge of what being efficient is.

The times they are a changin'.  If you run servers in the cloud you
pay for processors and you pay for bytes, so there is a considerable
renewed interest in fast and compact systems and protocols.

Andrew.

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Dropbox rant Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 11:24 -0700
  Re: Dropbox rant Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-22 13:50 -0500
    Re: Dropbox rant Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-23 04:50 -0500
      Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-23 06:58 -0700
        Re: Dropbox rant foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 18:06 -0700
          Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 20:30 -0700
            Re: Dropbox rant foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 22:02 -0700
              Re: Dropbox rant "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-24 21:52 -1000
              Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 16:38 -0700
                Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-25 16:55 -0700
            Re: Dropbox rant Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 17:50 -0700
          Re: Dropbox rant "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-24 21:26 -1000
            Re: Dropbox rant john <anon@example.com> - 2017-04-25 10:22 +0100
              Re: Dropbox rant lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 04:14 -0700
              Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-25 11:25 -0700
                Re: Dropbox rant Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-26 15:57 +0100
                Re: Dropbox rant Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 18:41 +0300
                Re: Dropbox rant Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-26 17:59 +0100
                Re: Dropbox rant Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 21:38 +0300
                Re: Dropbox rant rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 17:48 -0400
                Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-26 12:42 -0700
                Re: Dropbox rant Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 06:57 +0300
                Re: Dropbox rant hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-26 21:20 -0700
                OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 07:45 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 01:31 -0400
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 08:43 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 01:56 -0400
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-27 13:17 -0700
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-27 16:31 -0400
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 07:48 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 10:22 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-30 11:09 +1000
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-29 21:52 -0700
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 08:24 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 01:54 -0400
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 09:04 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 02:19 -0400
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 00:41 -0700
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 11:01 +0300
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 01:24 -0700
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 03:33 -0700
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com - 2017-04-30 16:19 +0100
                Re: OT: Hugh's in need of help (was Re: Dropbox rant) Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-30 16:46 -0500
                Re: Dropbox rant "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-02 11:33 +1000
                Back on-topic: what attracted you to Forth?' (was: OT: Hugh's in need of help ...) Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 08:42 +0300

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