By "early 80s computers" if you mean home computers like the C64, Apple II, trs80, ibmpc and Sinclair, then the answer is no. Not really. Today's software is me

By "early 80s computers" if you mean home computers like the C64, Apple II, trs80, ibmpc and Sinclair, then the answer is no. Not really. Today's software is memory and power hungry. Which 80s computers didn't have very much of. It is possible we could have done a better job of switching paradigms earlier. But I think the 80s software was pretty good for what it was.