Thread: A forward thinking strategy for Nokia - Do we even need a mobile platform?
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2011-02-05 , 02:27
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Originally Posted by Rav View Post
I don't think this is true at all, especially when talking about Linux, you can start with a minimal distro like Slackware or Arch Linux and scale up perfectly well without any bloat.
Well, i dont aree here. Linux is also very bloated because of the standard use of C-code instead of handoptimized assembler.
C on the other hand provides linux with a great deal of portability, but it will always be bloated programs from it.
Back in the early days people could do more with 64kilobyte than can be done today with 64Megabyte.
-the first unix was btw limited to 4KB of ram