Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!lll-lcc!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: True Multitasking, and some history lessons Message-ID: <217@sugar.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 08:56:11 EDT Article-I.D.: sugar.217 Posted: Tue Jun 23 08:56:11 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 10:52:31 EDT References: <8706200609.AA19016@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 11 Summary: Another reason to make programs small... > when performance is an issue. One fun thing about the Amiga is that > it is giving me an opportunity to consider making things smaller to > conserve *disk* space, if nothing else, which helps me break some sloppy > habits. But it still has plenty of RAM (and disk space) for programs that > *need* to be big. What fun! Given the tendency of people to daemonize programs on the Amiga (I know I do: I often want to keep an extra CLI or utility around while I'm compiling), there's another reason to keep them small: conserve RAM space. You're more likely to be able to keep a 5K program around while compiling than a 50K one.