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Software built under tight hardware constraints tends to have faster, more responsive UI than software built without such limits.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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  1. Chris Wellons

    Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems…

    Targeting old 16-bit computers, the authors couldn't afford to build a sloppy, wasteful UI, and so by modern standards the game UI is remarkably fast and responsive.

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