System Resources Quotes

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.

One can think of any given axiom system as being like a computer with a certain limited amount of memory or processing power. One could switch to a computer with even more storage, but no matter how large an amount of storage space the computer has, there will still exist some tasks that are beyond its ability.

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.