Spent hours playing Apache comanche game back in the days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxgYEBAXA). It ran on a 4MB RAM machine just fine.
I wonder if we ever get back to this kind of efficient use of computers?
I wonder if we ever get back to this kind of efficient use of computers?
The places where it has made economic sense for me to optimise has been high volume consumer electronics. In those cases, taking up a bit less code space means you can drop to a smaller sized flash part and save 30 cents on a $20 bill of materials (for example).