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Am I missing something? Doubling the memory requirement for a piece of software by adding layers of abstraction isn't uncommon, no?
by phendrenad2 3y ago
Am I missing something? Doubling the memory requirement for a piece of software by adding layers of abstraction isn't uncommon, no?
- AshamedCaptain 3y agoIt's not just doubling, but literally going out of reach for most people in the home market. A comparison with other home OSes of the era is therefore unfair.
- phendrenad2 3y agoI think I object to the term "bloat" as used there. To me, "bloat" means that something is large for no reason. If OS/2 and NT were able to leapfrog the home PC market by using a high-level language, that seems like an acceptable engineering tradeoff.