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Back in the day, you could boot the entire BeOS kernel, filesystem, GUI, network stack, window & task manager, and web browser off of a 1.44mb floppy disk. Eve
by nkoren 13y ago
Back in the day, you could boot the entire BeOS kernel, filesystem, GUI, network stack, window & task manager, and web browser off of a 1.44mb floppy disk.
Ever since then, I've been unable to shake the feeling that something has gone catastrophically wrong with the way we architect software.
- vidarh 13y agoI'm seriously considering switching to using an AmigaOS mail client + UAE (Amiga emulator) instead of Thunderbird because of how slow and bloated it is - there are at least two AmigaOS mail clients still in development, and given that they are written to still be able to run on the old m68k Amiga's (in addition to on newer PPC systems) I have an inkling they'd come out of it quite well.
- informatimago 13y agoWell when you add up all the backdoors to the various spy agencies worldwide, plus the obfoscation mass code, I the that accounts for the bloat. good luck finding it amongst the 18 GB sources of Android, or similar for the other systems.