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Le Thu, 12 May 2011 20:44:57 +0200, <tmoran@acm.org> a =C3=A9crit:

>   A few years ago an NTFS disk became corrupted and Windows stuck its =
 =

> nose
> in the air and pretended it didn't exist.  So I got out my old Janus D=
OS
> compiler and, accessing disk sectors via the BIOS, was able to copy
> almost everything.
>   More generally, hardware is simple - a few pages would tell you
> everything you needed to know about, say, DMA.  Today you need to lear=
n
> a massive library even to do a simple thing, and then spend a lot of t=
ime
> discovering what the docs left out or lied about.
I agree :( and I feel that's a design mistake

> I suspect programmers
> today spend much more time gathering information and much less time
> creating programs.
I suspect no programmers of widely used systems (Windows, Linux kernel, =
 =

MySQL, and so on) understand the whole of these systems (another matter =
 =

too). May be that's one of the reason of these permanent increases of  =

resources consumption ?


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t pas pour  =

les chiens.
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=9D [Anonymous]