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In article <870217@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Ted Johnson writes:
>I agree!  I read "Programmers at Work" a while ago (it is a book of
>a bunch of interviews with famous programmers), and one of the
>things that Bill Gates (CEO of MicroSoft) kept talking about 
>(and considered as the sign of a good programmer) was doing wierd 
>things to squeeze every bit of performance out of the hardware.  

On the other hand, I get rather psyched when, under MultiFinder on my one meg
Mac Plus, I can run MS-Word and my terminal program at the same time and
switch between the two.  My terminal program takes up 300K and Word seems to
run fine in <300K.  Compare that with, say, FullWrite.

I'm not saying that Word is better than FullWrite, I don't want to start that
war up.  I'm merely pointing out that most of Microsoft's software seems to
run very nicely in small amounts of memory and this might be a feature of
"doing weird things".
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