Some of it was. My first three computers never crashed at all. But then hard drives were invented, and suddenly computers could hold several orders of magnitud

Some of it was. My first three computers never crashed at all. But then hard drives were invented, and suddenly computers could hold several orders of magnitude more mistakes. Demands on feature set grew. We started expecting to run more than one program at once and have them play nice with each other. Then we connected them to the Internet and a whole new world of mistakes became possible - and this is where we are. But stuff like ... Borland TurboPascal. Was rock solid and fast.