[geeks] Software Bloat

[Michael Dombrowski]

> "Why use SPARCs, when there are all these Windows machines around" 8-)
> 
> You can do a *lot* in 512k of memory.  Bloated software (microsoft!)
> is the problem.

What does it matter that you can do a whole lot with 512k? Excepting 
embedded stuff, not a whole lot. And if you look at it properly, 
software, MS included, has gotten a whole lot less bloated over the 
years. People say "back in the day Wordperfect was a complete word 
processor that used 1mb of disk", but that 1mb of disk cost $5. 
Nowadays the 500mb that Office uses costs about a buck and does more. 
Maybe I'm just nuts but I see no problem.

Mike