What defines a "Veteran" PC developer?

Yesterday, I found myself thinking about the concept of what "veteran" developer could be.

I think I've found some interesting clues!

Let's see... humm... A veteran PC developer is the one that:

- know what HIMEM.SYS is;

- Still edits autoexec.bat to set his programs to launch at startup;

- Knows why DRDOS was far better than MSDOS, specially when using the "TAB" key;

- Understands the INT9 concept to put TSR programs working;

- Thinks that OOP concept is like a kid's toy;

- Knows what was the "Turbo" meaning in "Turbo Pascal";

- Created an WIN.bat to lauch Windows 3.0 without have to type "WINDOWS" in the MSDOS 5.0 command prompt;

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Give me more! Help me to complete this list!

Because memory still matters!

In nowadays PCs, with tons of spare DDR3 GBs of RAM, developers (specially the younger ones) tend to forget memory managment, as other aspects in software development are more urgent to attend to.

However, if you are a REAL developer (or a 640Kb PC veteran like me) you should have a little more respect for memory managment.

Take a quick look at http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_memory_profiler/DOTNET_Memory_Management/Index.html and tell me what do you think about this subject...

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