[Sudetenland]

"Running Windows 3.1 now is thought-provoking. Some aspects are impressive. The Microsoft Office software of the era – Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0 – is excellent. The speed and capability of Word 2.0 in just 4MB RAM is depressing: what have we done with all the storage and processing power that has come to us since?"

I have often pondered over this precise thing. Just imagine how much faster all of our programs would be if they had maintained the super-compact, very tightly written code instead of allowing them to become "bloatware."

As computers got faster and held more memory and larger discs, programmers got lazy. They realized just how much memory and processing power they had at their disposal so ruthless efficiency went out the window.

[Dr. Sivana]

Just imagine how much faster all of our programs would be if they had maintained the super-compact, very tightly written code instead of allowing them to become "bloatware."

Or if they used assembler, like the early versions of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.