tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8165413137385260502.post-37812983455201003262007-07-09T07:43:00.001-07:002007-07-10T05:32:35.717-07:00640 KB is enough for everyone.<br /><br />Well it used to be, I used to have no hard disk in my computer and my first hard disk was 30 MB. Now I have applications that are far bigger than 30 MB and that application does not do all that much, or does it ?<br /><br />Back when 640 KB was enough for everyone, it actually was because applications were different.<br />Not only did one application tie your whole machine up, it had to have its own drivers for graphics, printers and its own spell checker if it had one. You can forget about using copy and paste between apps, you had to save a text to a disk (floppy or hard disk) quit your software (or reboot your machine even) start the other software and read in the file.<br /><br />Wordperfect today and back in 1988 have almost nothing in common except for the name. Back in 1990 when designers were using heavy duty DTP (desktop publishing), all they did was edit text, line feeds and columns. Every single picture they used was just a black square. Wordperfect would allow you to have pictures, and these pictures were 3 KB or 13 KB and were only loaded when I went to a graphical viewer and viewed the page. So a final thesis of 50 pages or more actually did probably only take 300 KB in memory at a given moment, of course you thought things were fast.<br /><br />Now when you use a simple word processor you dump pictures, fonts, layouts and more all into a file that is all in memory, of course you need Gigabytes in memory, you are doing a whole lot more than you used to, you just don't notice.<br /><br />So if we do a simple calculation, if 640 KB was more than enough when you had 30 MB disk what are they same sizes today :<br /><br />640 / 30 000 = 0.021<br /><br />Now today, my computer has 2 GB memory and 120 GB hard disk :<br /><br />2 000 000 / 120 000 000 = 0.0167<br />for those with 1 GB memory :<br />1 000 000 / 120 000 000 = 0.0083<br /><br />So given a flaky logic to this, software today has actually gotten smaller and uses quite a lot less space and actually does a lot more and do not forget, one app does not take over your computer.<br /><br />So to conclude, the app that people see as great engineering back when people took care of their code and that application only was 230 KB, well given above faulty logic that app was the bloatware, not the clipboard application that is over 5 MB.<br /><br />Todays apps are not bloatware.<br /><br />For those needing a clipboard application, turn to www.studlar.net and download ContainerTraustihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05685271702713267686noreply@blogger.com