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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 04:28:23PM -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
...
>   Somewhere along the line, I believe in the early 1970s, some idiot
> proclaimed that "programmer time is more precious than processor time".
>  This created an excuse for programmer laziness that still affects us to
> this day, giving us such "progress" as operating systems that require
> gigabytes of RAM and several minutes at billions of clock cycles per
> second just to boot.  Every time Firefox slows to a crawl or Xilinx ISE
> takes forever to start up, I'm reminded of this.  It seems most people
> just accept it, paint on it the pretty face of "progress" (at any cost!)
> and pretend to like it.

I think all this was intentional, as well as kettles and irons with
modern 64-bit processors and some means for instant internet access.

Cheers,
  Vladimir