OT - Memory usage in days of yore

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from Janice Caron (caron800 at googlemail.com)'s article
> On 11/04/2008, Saaa <empty at needmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd rather see a pissing contest then erm.. well.. a crapping contest.
> I really don't understand the relevance of that statement. It seems a
> bit rude to me. Is this some internet jargon with which I am
> unfamiliar? Maybe like trolling or flaming or something? I sense no
> ill will in this thread.
> And there is a positive side to it. Though we were being nostalgic, in
> passing we were also pointing out how /much/ it's possible to do with
> only small amounts of memory. Modern compilers, for all their
> optimisation techniques, could still learn a lot from what the human
> brain was doing in the early eighties.

And cue the story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html


Sean