Thanks everybody for the feedback so far. Having done a fair bit of PIC 
assembly coding over the last few months, I now really see the 
phenomenon of commercial software expanding to fill ever cheaper and 
faster computer space, while performance seems to stand still.

Small is beautiful, generally speaking.

Matt


Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 1:10 PM, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Now, trying to run a "modern" GUI desktop environment (or
>> applications)on top of X is an entirely different kettle of
>> fish.  I hope the associated developers found it appropriately
>> humbling when their memory requirements got closer and closer
>> to that of windows as their feature set got closer to windows.
>>
>>     
>
> This matches the development on the hardware side, companies
> like Intel/AMD. HP/Dell/etc and Microsoft need to earn money. So
> Vista is out to force you to upgrade your RAM and Graphic card.
>
> Linux is actually not too bad because you have more choices.
> You do not like KDE/Gnome? No problem, try XFCE. That is
> still to heavyweight? You can always use FVWM2. Even that
> is too heavyweight? Drop back to plain console.
>
> Xiaofan
>   
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