When I see the complexity and ingenuity of these codes eg dostodon. I don’t know I should be angry or sad by the resources needed for my iPhone or Mac to deliver a similar capability.
I remember having a box of floppies, each one laboriously labelled "UTIL [1] .. [2] .. [etc.]" that I would religiously protect from all and sundry in my little dev team. We'd pass around the box, and one of use would know "PC-Write is in UTIL 4" .. "Turbo C install .EXE is in UTIL 6", and so on. This box grew and grew until eventually it was decided, we had to just have a Maxtor disk - a WOPPING 512 Megabytes, to replace this box of floppies.
For a few years afterwards, I kept this UTIL box around. I'm pretty sure its still in one of my many, many other boxes of boxes in the house ..
For a few years afterwards, I kept this UTIL box around. I'm pretty sure its still in one of my many, many other boxes of boxes in the house ..