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> Again, if you think that software hasn't advanced much, simply use the software from 10 or 20 years ago, and see if you can stand the experience. Try 1987 Ve
by flavio81 9y ago
> Again, if you think that software hasn't advanced much, simply use the software from 10 or 20 years ago, and see if you can stand the experience.
Try 1987 Ventura Publisher. That's 30 years ago. You can publish a whole magazine or a 1000 page book on a modest (<4MB) PC with 286 processor with it. It has a great GUI, excellent usability and, dare to say, isn't slow at all.
On the IDE side, the IDE environments for Lisp on the Lisp machines of the early 80s, or the Smalltalk environment for the early 80s Xerox computers have nothing to envy the modern IDE environments that are commonly used for languages like Java.