[OneWingedShark]

Back in the day they did some amazing things with a limited amount of space — so much so that I think if half that level were applied to what we commonly use today the OS wouldn't be more than a GB in size. (As a point of comparison, wikipeda's entry for Wirth's Oberon says: The Oberon OS is available for several hardware platforms, generally in no cost versions. It is typically extremely compact. Even with an Oberon compiler, assorted utilities including a web browser, TCP/IP networking, and a GUI, the entire package can be compressed to a single 3.5" floppy disk.)

[Paisan]

Back in the day they did some amazing things with a limited amount of space

Exactly.

When you’ve only got 4K of memory to play with, you become incredibly creative.

Now, with bazillions of bytes to play with, programming becomes quite sloppy and wasteful.

It’s frustrating that the faster computers get, the slower they seem to work.

[BfloGuy]

Back in the day they did some amazing things with a limited amount of space

It's interesting, that.

Sort of like how the greatest poetry was written when the expectations of rhyme and rhythm were taken seriously. Once those were gone, it all dissolved into strings of meaninglessness.