The Challenge Today Is Overwhelming Complexity
Here’s a really great post by Tom Moertel on squeezing every last ounce of performance out of machines back in the day.
It was a time when unrolling a loop to save the few clock cycles or seeing a unique way to use the registers of a chip could take a game from clunky to classic.
Stories of making machines do the impossible are the stuff of legend. The closest we mere mortals came was rejigging our config.sys and autoexec.bat files to free up a little memory. If you’re under 30 even that may sound alien.
