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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: inherent contradiction |
| Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:19:01 -0500 (EST) |
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Rick Engebretson wrote:
The large effort to serve everybody might result in serving nobody. Ncurses must remain simple, stable, and maintainable. Ncurses can be a core for specialized derivations and extensions. But the core ncurses-5.4.tar.gz is already over 2MB. My first PC did neat tricks with 256KB ram!! Yes, ram is now cheap, but complexity is still expensive. Rick.
I'm keeping all of that in mind. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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