I 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

I 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.