Originally posted by glxextxexlg
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I think we have big OSes (and applications in general) because of two main reasons:
* everywhere speed of development is favored to code optimization.
* many times fancy code designs are introduced needlessly.
Think Windows 95 which works with 4MB of RAM and compare that to Windows 8 which requires 1GB (250x) and wonder if the features included in Win8 and not in Win95 really justifies that much change in memory requirement. It's like you write a notepad application with a size of 1MB, then you add support for multi tabs and the size jumps to 20MB!!
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