7 Nov
2006
7 Nov
'06
4:04 p.m.
There isn't a single user these days that would
put up with what we
called a "user interface" in 1979 -- scrolling text, interview style.
False, actually; I'm a counterexample. I can and do put up with a
glass-tty interface on occasion. (Add cursor addressing - which I for
one had in 1980 - and I would even call it common for me to use such an
interface.)
Step back and
think about it for awhile--put yourself back 20 years
to 1986 and consider what you could have done with a gig of disk
space and 32 megs of RAM.
...and no virtual memory, no GPU, no windowing system,
not even 256
color graphics much less 24-bit per-pixel graphics. Hell, in 1986
you'd be lucky to have floating-point in hardware. So, bloat is
everywhere.
The biggest bloat is in expectations,