Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic writes:

=E2=80=8BI think the term "resource-poor" for describing the 60s, 70s=E2=80= =8B or maybe the 80s is inaccurate It is relative, depending on your viewpoint - if you keep looking from the 21st century viewpoint But if you were there in the thick of it back then, it was actually the norm. So you were expected to design with those constraints Constraints are a fact of life in engineering Dan

Especially, the constraints tying you to a desk until the job is complete. ;)