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Old 06-09-2014, 01:45 AM   #14
jeff_wilson
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Default Re: Software Tools for technical skills: Cost, Quality, Complexity

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
Well, in that case I'll just point out a general rule of software engineering: software will expand to fill available space. I first used word processing software on a machine with 64k RAM, and WYSIWYG on a machine with 512k. Somehow, modern word processors manage to use a thousand times that.
Well, there are gobs more included features now, starting with hardware independence.
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