If we're being honest with ourselves, I think most people who like old software like it the same way people like vintage cars. Most modern software that needs

If we're being honest with ourselves, I think most people who like old software like it the same way people like vintage cars. Most modern software that needs to be built with performance on mind has that requirement because it's being built for commercial purposes. Most end-user software simply doesn't face that same constraint, although it's a property many claim to desire, because we all tend to have gigabytes of RAM and megabytes of network speed at our disposal. We have so much of these, in fact, sitting idle most of the time, that companies like Microsoft notice very few of their actual users max out their system usage and start building in their own ... stuff, to make better commercial use of it, let's say. (Whether that is a good outcome is a debate everyone is wrong about in a different way.) Sounds an awful lot like my dad complaining about all the junk they put in modern cars these days. And yet, I don't see a lot of vintage cars in active use. They're kept around mostly for the fun in the off-clock hours. Maybe you drive them to and from the job interview to leave a certain impression upon the interviewer. Who knows.