Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 11, 1985

Transcript:

Bernie: You see, Mike, there are 12 different degrees of operational ease built into "Eve." But the more "friendly" the program you select, the less memory is left over for your use. Some programs are so friendly, the computer has amnesia. It's all a question of how much of your 512ks of memory you sacrifice for service. Click position one and ask it to print out your file. Computer: Okay, but just this once. Bernie: That's called "user-tolerant." The program only uses 10k. Now click position 12 and try again. Computer: I'll take care of everything. Go have some coffee and kick back. Bernie: "User-devoted." 500k.