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Geoff O'Callaghan (hackcat@banzai.apana.org.au) wrote:
: Has anyone else noticed that as technology gets better and better that
: the performance of the software gets worse and worse?  It seems that
: software developers are using faster hardware to cover up for incompetent
: programmers.  
: Linux is a slick OS but as soon as you want a word processor you get
: software which has bugger all features, is as bloated (code-wise) as a
: puffer fish and runs like a 'rock'.
: Just to put things in perspective I have a pdp-11 with 256K (yes K) of
: memory and this is capable of running 20 simultaneous word processor users
: (which it used to).
: So using todays P200 with 64M of memory and the same software profile then
: I should be able to have 5000+ simultaneous users - but I can't even
: get 1 WP to run.

I agree! For example, I downloaded a copy of PacMan for Windows 95 from
the M$ site. The download was over 1MB, and the game played identically to
the one I used to have for my C-64. Same cheesy graphics and sound, yet on
a machine 7 years old it only took less then 100K. 

I think the problem this software developers are constantly under pressure
to get their software out as fast as possible. Writing tight small code is
not a priority, and until hardware speeds stop increasing so fast it won't
be. Sigh. 

--Ben