[Blood of Tyrants]

Unfortunately operating systems and programs have followed "Gates' Law" which states "No matter how fast you make the computer and how much memory you put in it, Windows will make a n operating system that slows it down to a crawl."

Remember when Windows 3.1 was on six floppy disks? Now Windows XP is on TWO CD's and takes up 1.5 GIGA-bytes of hard drive space. And it STILL takes 3 minutes to boot up!

[ChuxsterS]

Remember when Windows 3.1 was on six floppy disks? Now Windows XP is on TWO CD's and takes up 1.5 GIGA-bytes of hard drive space. And it STILL takes 3 minutes to boot up!

Yeah, but instead of just Solitaire, Windows now comes with Freecell, Hearts, Minesweeper, and Spider Solitaire. Progress ain't cheap.

[trebb]

Too true - programmers take advantage of super hardware in order to write sloppy apps instead of efficient ones. A couple of years ago I downloaded an OS with a dialer and a web browser along with a few other areas of functionality - it all fit on one floppy...