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

Roger Young r.young at irl.cri.nz
Tue Jul 10 20:11:19 NZST 2007


On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:53:04 +1200
"Phillip Hutchings" <phillip.hutchings at sitharus.com> wrote:

> 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!

That's nothing! At my work we can't even afford bits. We have to use
second hand brain cells, like it or leave it!

Wootletootle

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