Re: [Hampshire] Whatever happened to programming? (O.T?)

Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 21 March 2010 21:16:30 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
>> Rather making a
>> plea for a return to the principle of simplicity, which I was taught was
>> the essence of good programming.
>
> We had to keep it taut and simple - we had so little memory available.
> Elegance wasn't purely for elegance's sake: it was a necessity!!
>
> Lisi
>
<brag>
How about a telephone switching system (PABX) supporting 120 extensions
+ 24 exchange lines, with the complete control program consisting of
128KB of code running on an 8085 - the OS (which I looked after) was 6KB
of hand-crafted assembly language code...
</brag>

Ian
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