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Take a look at these NASA Apollo Mission Control Console close-up view displays.
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Tom45:

--- Quote from: Tomorokoshi on March 28, 2021, 07:20:03 pm ---What gets me is that it took them only 2 years to put it into operation. And they didn't even have the benefit of Agile.

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I think you already have the answer: they didn't have the "benefit" of Agile.

james_s:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 01, 2021, 11:16:27 am ---I am running W2K in a VM here. The entire live c:\windows folder takes up 658MB.

Of course, it doesn't have a lot of the fripperies that make later Windows nice to use - aero, for instance - but at least the windows have actual borders and scrolling windows show the damn scrollbars without having to have the mouse cursor over them. I can't imagine  how deliberately hiding useful user interface clues can add 52.5GB!

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I think it would be fascinating to see a deep analysis of where all the storage goes with modern software. I mean you have modern versions of software that used to be a few hundred megabytes tops that now consumes tens of gigabytes, that's orders of magnitude! And for what exactly? Sure, a lot of it does more, but not THAT much more. How does an operating system require tens of gigabytes? That's absolute madness.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: james_s on April 01, 2021, 08:48:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 01, 2021, 11:16:27 am ---I am running W2K in a VM here. The entire live c:\windows folder takes up 658MB.

Of course, it doesn't have a lot of the fripperies that make later Windows nice to use - aero, for instance - but at least the windows have actual borders and scrolling windows show the damn scrollbars without having to have the mouse cursor over them. I can't imagine  how deliberately hiding useful user interface clues can add 52.5GB!

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I think it would be fascinating to see a deep analysis of where all the storage goes with modern software. I mean you have modern versions of software that used to be a few hundred megabytes tops that now consumes tens of gigabytes, that's orders of magnitude! And for what exactly? Sure, a lot of it does more, but not THAT much more. How does an operating system require tens of gigabytes? That's absolute madness.

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That's an interesting question.  There are some tools in Mark Russinovich's Sysinternals suite that lets you see which files have open handles...  could be interesting to compare an older vs. newer OS and see what is actually in use!
gnuarm:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 27, 2021, 04:27:49 pm ---
Awesome...   Modern web designers would need a 30 foot video wall to show the same information that our ancestors managed with just a single CRT monitor!

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About 15 years ago I took a class which had a guy in it working for NASA on the cape.  He said that even then they could not replace the specialized electronics for comms and telemetry with generic computers and networks.  The throughput, latency and reliability are just too stringent.  Now it is 15 years later and technology has advanced another leap or two.  I wonder if that is still true? 
Red Squirrel:
That's really cool.  Crazy to think it was the 70's.  They were really ahead of their time.

At 8:45 that ashtray is a nice touch.  Imagine the uproar now days if someone tried to light up a cigarette in middle of a space mission, indoors.  :-DD
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