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  • Subject: RE: is nmi translator off limits?
  • From: "Njal Fisketjon" <n.f@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:16:04 +0200
  • Importance: Normal

> 3. My own theory is that snowballing demands on processing power and
> memory are the direct result of hardware manufacturers bending over
> backwards to give developers the biggest, fastest new toys. That's why I
> prefer to do development work on the oldest, slowest machines capable of
> running the software: if something is inefficient, I know about 
> it right away.
> 

My theory is that Microsoft design their next version of Windows & Office 
so that they need 150% of all available processing power of a top-of-the-line 
PC available when they start developing. :-)


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