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Things were pretty slow in the Windows 95 era too. It’s easy to look back on that era with rose tinted glasses but even back then people were constantly moaning that software bloat outpaced computer specifications.

After more than 3 decades of writing software, I can confidently say that computer specifications are a lot like a persons house or flat. The more space you have, the more ways you find to fill that space. And the less space you have, the more ways you find to optimise for that space.




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