Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!merchant From: merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually Message-ID: <9867@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 88 15:45:25 GMT References: <429@rose3.rosemount.com> <870217@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) Organization: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY Lines: 20 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". --- "Wise guys realize Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP) There's danger in emotional ties..." (merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu) (Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu)