Howard Chu @ Symas on Nostr: nprofile1q…ws5v5 I remember when Nethack was the largest program I'd ever worked ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqgazpacexclxlz2zyw8jjhjt5rm9tu0l539k66vu3fkalnnwrrenslws5v5 (nprofile…s5v5) I remember when Nethack was the largest program I'd ever worked on, and it was too big to run on a PC with 256KB RAM. Then it grew too big for 320K, and kept growing... but then I bought an Atari 1040ST with a whopping 1MB of RAM, and I could build Nethack with every option enabled and not worry about it fitting any more.

Even with the jump to 64bit computing, I still balk at code bigger than a couple MB. OpenLDAP slapd is still less than 3MB of code.