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Couldn't agree more. In the 80s, I wrote in assembly. In the 90s, I saw Microsoft release operating systems which were incredibly bloated and memory hungry. At
by johnvanommen 6y ago
Couldn't agree more.
In the 80s, I wrote in assembly. In the 90s, I saw Microsoft release operating systems which were incredibly bloated and memory hungry. At the time, I thought it was insanely inefficient.
In hindsight, they were right and I was wrong. It's true that Microsoft's software was bloated, but they were prophetic enough to see that RAM and storage was going to get cheap. The hardware became powerful enough to make the bloat of the operating system unnoticeable.
- dpc_pw 6y ago> The hardware became powerful enough to make the bloat of the operating system unnoticeable. No it didn't. Lots of stuff that was instant on the computer from the past, is slow on modern computers. Basic things like displaying content of a directory etc. What changed is public perception - people accept bloated and terrible software as something normal.