{"id":1489,"date":"2003-07-22T04:43:47","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/ah-the-memories\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:41:47","slug":"ah-the-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/ah-the-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the memories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14026,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/radio.weblogs.com\\\/0001011\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/21.html#a3859&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14027,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kookaburra.typepad.com\\\/weblog\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/windows_2000_ea.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250910204708\\\/https:\\\/\\\/kookaburra.typepad.com\\\/weblog\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/windows_2000_ea.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:56:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 23:53:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 22:14:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 22:14:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/07\/21.html#a3859\" title=\"Kookaburra asks...\">Robert Scoble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Kookaburra asks &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kookaburra.typepad.com\/weblog\/2003\/07\/windows_2000_ea.html\" title=\"Windows 2000 eats RAM. What will Longhorn do?\">will Longhorn eat RAM?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  My &#8220;official Microsoft approved answer&#8221;: too early to talk about minimum or recommended requirements. We probably won&#8217;t talk about minimum requirements until right before launch.<\/p>\n<p>  The answer I give my friends after they get me drunk: &#8220;yes.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of his answer is worth reading, where he explains his answer a bit more in depth, without running afoul of the Powers That Be at Microsoft. Still, this got me thinking about how much I miss the days when computers weren&#8217;t as powerful as they are now. Not because I&#8217;d like to go back to the days of 286&#8217;s and Motorola 68000 processors (ick), but because the limited resources forced programmers to weigh features against bloat, to code for small sizes as well as functionality, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The first computer I owned was a Mac Classic, with 1Mb RAM (that&#8217;s not a typo &#8212; one megabyte) and no internal hard drive. My senior year of high school, I did all my papers on that machine. I had two 1.4Mb floppys: one with System 6.0.7 to boot the computer, and one that had Microsoft Word v4 and every paper I wrote that school year.<\/p>\n<p>Let me stress that: one floppy. Microsoft Word <em>and<\/em> every paper I wrote in a school year.<\/p>\n<p>I miss that.<\/p>\n<p>You know, as it stands right now, I won&#8217;t buy Microsoft Word. But if they could dig into their archives, pull out the source code for Word v4 for Mac and update it to run on Mac OS X, I&#8217;d pop down cash for that in a heartbeat. Best damn word processor I ever used, mainly because it was a <em>word processor<\/em>, not a over-priced, over-featured, kludgy, pain in the ass piece of bloatware with every conceivable feature tossed in merely because it could be.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss the days when computers weren&#8217;t as powerful as they are now. Not because I&#8217;d like to go back to the days of 286&#8217;s and Motorola 68000 processors (ick), but because the limited resources forced programmers to weigh features against bloat, to code for small sizes as well as functionality, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}