Quoth Caleb Cupples :
>> The size of programs and the amount of memory and processing power
>> that is needed to run them has really gotten out of hand.
>> You would think it would be the reverse.
>
> I could do 90% of what I do now with my Lombard running OS 9.2.2 with
> 192 MB of RAM on my 190 running OS 7.5.3 and only 24 MB of RAM. Is it
> just me, or did that jump from a 68LC040/33 to a G3/400 not make all
> that much difference in my computer usage?
Lazy programmers and feature creep. Having worked for a software
development firm, I can tell you these are the two biggest reasons we have
such Big Fat Hairy programs out there today.
I'd use the old days of DOS as an example, but that's just too far OT
for me. Someone else mentioned MS Word, though, and that's a perfect example
of bloat: Quite possibly the most seamless and perfect program I've ever
used on any platform was Word 5.1. For Mac or Windows, it was smooth, worked
great, did absolutely everything I could ever want a word processor to do,
and never choked on me.
Then 6.0 came out. It's been a downhill slide ever since.
Cheers,
A.J.
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