[wellylug]The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 7/10/07, Simon Eatough <s.eatough at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:54:02 nic wrote:
> > I think the comment just reflects that most people don;t realise there's a
> > world other than web apps or large corporate apps. Us poor embedded people
> > often struggle with things like 8k (yes, kilo) bytes of RAM. C#, C++, Java,
>
> 8K RAM is a luxury !, some of the 8 bit processors at we use at work can have
> as little as 512 bytes of RAM. And only relatively recently have there been
> decent debug tools available.

Luxury! In my day we had none of those fancy bytes, we had bits and liked it!

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Phillip Hutchings
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