I guess what I was wondering how they wrote programs in c that took such low resources.
Thomas explained it quite well, but I want to add that you should also realize that many things don't need large quantities of cpu power. There are often multiple ways of doing things, and some of those ways are fast, while others are slow.
It seems today that computers that are much faster are still slow.
Some programs, like certain text editors for example, are dead slow on even a Pentium 3 (Pspad), while text handling is nothing a 68030 can't handle at comfortable speeds, even with a few megabytes of text. It just depends on how well something has been implemented, and it seems that few people care about software speed these days
Computers get faster, software gets slower :furious:
