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It was thus said that the Great peter f miller once stated: > On 2/7/07, Robert Rothenberg <robrwo@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: > >* An optimisation which gives a 20% performance boost that imposts a limit > > on the software, but one which will not affect 95% of the users (and > > which most of the other 5% can work around)? > > > >* No limits to what the software does (to make life easier for the 10%), > > but it runs slower. Perhaps slower than a competing product. > > > >Given the trade, I wouldn't call the person who wrote such a function a > >moron. > > I just discovered last week that Adobe Reader arbitrarily limits you > to 20 open files. Can we please still call *them* morons? Hmmm ... I don't have the references handy (they're at home, I'm not) but that sound suspiciously like the default open file limit under MS-DOS. Sigh. -spc (Aieeeeeeeeee! Why do I remember such crap?)There's stuff above here
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