Reminds me of Niklaus Wirth's 1995 piece "A plea for lean software": About 25 years ago, an interactive text editor could be designed with as little as 8,0

Reminds me of Niklaus Wirth's 1995 piece "A plea for lean software": About 25 years ago, an interactive text editor could be designed with as little as 8,000 bytes of storage. (Modern program editors request 100 times that much) An operating system had to manage with 8,000 bytes, and compiler had to fit into 32 Kbytes, whereas their modern descendants require megabytes. Has all this inflated software become any faster? On the contrary. Were it not for a thousand times faster hardware, modern software would be utterly unusable.