Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[martin_ueding@bonn.social]

@wolf480pl @patterfloof @fribbledom
I got a work laptop with 64 GB of RAM such that I can run VS Code, Slack, Obsidian, Spotify and Zotero (all Electron apps which ship their own copy of Chromium engine).

I am kind of happy that RAM got expensive again such that programmers might actually start to value it again …

[martin_ueding@bonn.social]

@fribbledom
I used to have 256 MB of RAM in the 64 MB era and it was luxurious. Now I have 16 GB in my personal laptop and I sometimes consider upgrading to 32 GB to fit all the browser tabs in there …

[wolf480pl@mstdn.io]

@martin_ueding @patterfloof @fribbledom
you do realize this can be read as a "fuck you, got mine"?

I would appreciate if programmers and product managers started caring more about resource usage.

I'd also appreciate a job where I get to spend a significant portion of my time optimizing code.

But I'm not seeing any of these happen yet, and I'm not holding my breath.

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@fribbledom

…*frantically increases BUFFERS=*

[hyperpac@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom To be fair - optimizing config.sys and autoexec.bat wasn‘t so much fun back in the days either. It was more a pain in the a** when your favourite game just wouldn‘t run. @bijram

[raptor@infosec.exchange]

@fribbledom @buherator accurate

[arem@mstdn.ca]

@fribbledom It felt easy most of the time. If a program needed 640K, I could skip most of the startup. For protected mode, I could skip everything, just load the mouse driver, and it ran well.

It became harder with later computers, simply because the Bios was starting to become larger, but by then Dos was starting to be replaced.

[hierkiosk@social.tchncs.de]

@benofbrown This happend to me, too. Probably it was still in recycle bin, but I never got the computer running again, had no-one to help me with that. @fribbledom

[xohvotoc@chaos.social]

@fribbledom
The names of the files are the reason I like to listen to 'MASTER BOOT RECORD'

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/c-chkdsk-f

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@martin_ueding @wolf480pl @patterfloof @fribbledom

@fribbledom

I was just compiling two copies of the business application I'm working on (policy management in insurance), in two IDE instances. It sent my 64 GB of RAM machine into thrashing.

NO, I was NOT running Outlook nor browsers nor much of anything else at the time!

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@fribbledom @kevin
These kids today don't know what it's like getting 639k free base memory so your badly coded bbs will load.

[bthylafh@nerdculture.de]

@AbramKedge @fribbledom ironically I got a lot more use out of EMS back then. About all that would use XMS was a few games using the Wolfenstein 3D engine. Newer games and Windows 3.1 were DPMI, older either EMS or just conventional.

[megawatt@infosec.exchange]

@mtnrbq65 @jeroenvanbergen @fribbledom and SMARTDRV FTW.

[mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.net]

@Megawatt @jeroenvanbergen @fribbledom

Ha ha , loving this thread

[martin_ueding@bonn.social]

@wolf480pl @patterfloof @fribbledom
I didn't intend that meaning but I see what you mean.

My job is in LLM Inference, and there we actually look into performance as it is a business interest to have that run efficient on the servers. I guess when it runs on customers's computers, the motivation is less clear.

[usernomnomnom@mastodon.social]

@KasTasMykolas @lord @fribbledom oh my god. I feel like just one is plenty?!

[eggimt@chaos.social]

@fribbledom

EMM386.EXE FTW!

[benofbrown@toot.cat]

@hierkiosk @fribbledom recycle bin? I was doing this in DOS

A friend of my parents sorted it out in the end.

[hierkiosk@social.tchncs.de]

@benofbrown It was running Win 3.11

[tanketom@tutoteket.no]

@roadskater @syferdet @fribbledom Where we’re going, we don’t need socks.