Jusatele
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no, My time frame may be off, but I do remember it was a 386, the 486s were not released yet and the drive was a MAxtor,Baskruit said:
I was going up to like 20 megabytes of storage. I am sorry, I said 2 in my first post, it was like 20
One thing you have to remember is in back then we wrote our programs tight, not like the sloppy writing of today. we had to for several reasons, first our cpu speed was so much slower than today we could not afford useless code, the other was we did not have the extra room to store crap. Today's code is huge and over half of it is software libraries that we use very little of. the modern writer can grab a library, use 3 or four functions and save hours and hours of programing in one swoop, so it is common. Plus we buy programs that are written for everyone, not just our uses. Look at Word for Windows, How huge is that program so that it is the ultimate, but I use very little of it. I have to have it for articles I write and sell to periodicals, but I use extremely few of the features, as I would say we all do, and we all use different features.
That is why cloud technology is the way to go with future programing. As of now we need huge storage areas in out computers for code we will never use. And if we are a business we need to buy that program over and over again and store it on each computer we use it on, However with the use of the cloud, we can use the storage capacity of the web, using what we need. It opens up a huge opportunity to speed up our computers, take over control of writing a program, and to make software companies be able to target the end user instead of the end user being overwhelmed with product he does not need.
It is like writing a web page. and how they interact with a browser. You want a web page to come up as fast as possible, but you can still go to a page that takes time to load and you just get frustrated and bounce the page and go elsewhere. The thing is tight code. I can write a much faster page by writing the code myself, If I use a program like Dreamweaver to write the code, I end up with a lot of useless code the browser has to go through to throw the page up. not good. So our browsers get bigger so we can keep the code simple and the net fast. With cloud programing we will be able to do the same. use the net for things we use PCs for, a Business machine will look more and more like a Mini computer system in architecture, so that we can use the net and streamline the end product.
