<p dir="ltr">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!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 22, 2013 11:20 PM, "Boris Borisov" <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
<br>I'm not in praise of M$ products.<br><br>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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