My preferred text editor is PC-Write version 3, circa 1988. I still use it, and it runs nicely on modern machines. 'Course it ran pretty well on my 4.77Mhz 8088 also.
What is the difference between hardware and software?
As time goes by, hardware gets smaller, faster, and cheaper; software gets bigger, slower, and more expensive.
My preferred text editor and word processor is Word 95. I have tried Word 97 and Word 2000 and have found that, although their size has ballooned by leaps and bounds, they are no better at core functionality. Word 95 was a little slow to load when I was running it on a 25mhz 486, but on a 200 mhz PII, it's 5 megabyte size means it
flies, and I look forward to using it in 2006, when it will be positively blinding on my new, off-lease Thinkpad running at 1ghz with half a gig of memory.
What's more: in six years of running Word 95, I cannot recall it having EVER crashed.