[ale] OT: Rant

[Jim Kinney]

Well, most base OS's require a CD to install from not a few floppies. And
the typical desktop set has so much eyecandy widget stuff as to consume a
horrid amount of resources. Why? Because (l)users will buy it. Code bloat
sells!
On Feb 22, 2013 11:20 PM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I found on the shelf at my workplace old mid 90's PC. PI 200
> MMX/64MB RAM Win 98. So let Me recall the old days. I crank it up and voila
> there is the well known desktop. I put floppy with few HTML files in I
> double click on license.htm and 3 seconds later there is Internet Explorer
> with full rendered pages.
>
> I'm not in praise of M$ products.
>
> The question I'm asking myself is how WE managed to degrade in terms of
> speed and hardware requirements that drastically in matter of 15 years. I
> can't probably run modern kernel and X server on this hardware without
> waiting first my lunch to get ready :)
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