>With this kind of computer power, our parents designed Hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, supersonic fighters and spaceships. You can still write bare-metal code and run

>With this kind of computer power, our parents designed Hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, supersonic fighters and spaceships. You can still write bare-metal code and run it on modern hardware with a thin OS that has functionality on par with the ones from that era. Question is, why would you want to? What specific tangible development cost/time (or other) benefits do you get out of it? >Now we make great Powerpoint decks... Powerpoint is also a vector art editor, a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, a multimedia player, a language translator, a restricted web browser, a script engine, etc, etc.