Is RAM Memory a Status Symbol? (1983)

[Someone]

http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue36/110_Guest_Commentary_Is_RAM_Memory_A_Status_Symbol.php

[msh]

ha, I love this quote:

First, we may take it that a one megabyte RAM is not likely to be filled with a BASIC or machine code program of anything near that length. The debugging alone would take too long! This leaves us with other possibilities.

[em3rgent0rdr]

Reading this has me imagining just how fast programs would run nowadays if they they were designed within the specifications of 80's hardware.

[ky3]

We could have a vast range of help screens available for instantaneous recall when in trouble.

Oh yes. 20 tabs open when hunky-dory. 120 when in trouble.