12 Apr
2017
12 Apr
'17
11:11 p.m.
Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Holway andrew.holway@gmail.com wrote:
When Windows 2000 came out some called it "bloated pig". Some 6 years down the road Linux started catching up ;-) Then we stopped laughing
about
Windows.
All in the name of progress..
I have been told that Windows developers were taught not tooptimize their code for memory/cpu/etc since those could be solved by throwing more hardware at it. Instead they should make clean readable code. Not claiming that is exclusive to Windows or the clean readable part is followed...
I read an interview 10? 15? years ago with Gates, and it was clear he was a hardware junky.
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