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Thanks CWA107. I am going to look that up. A one floppy GUI based OS? It is worth the look just for the fun of it.
I COMPLETELY agree with your sentiments. Software bloat is everywhere. Not more value, just more size. Just ONCE I would love to see a version of Mac OS X or Windows or Linux or... any OS come out with a release that actually ran faster on the same hardware and was more resource (disk, memory, etc.) efficient... just ONCE. Wouldn't that be nice?
Imagine the marketing buzz Apple could get if, in contrast to Vista, Leopard actually was smaller and faster than Tiger, required LESS memory and took up LESS disk space, all while offering new features. You could mount a killer marketing campaign around such a thing, not to mention delighting the entire Mac using universe.
Sigh... I can always dream.
I COMPLETELY agree with your sentiments. Software bloat is everywhere. Not more value, just more size. Just ONCE I would love to see a version of Mac OS X or Windows or Linux or... any OS come out with a release that actually ran faster on the same hardware and was more resource (disk, memory, etc.) efficient... just ONCE. Wouldn't that be nice?
Imagine the marketing buzz Apple could get if, in contrast to Vista, Leopard actually was smaller and faster than Tiger, required LESS memory and took up LESS disk space, all while offering new features. You could mount a killer marketing campaign around such a thing, not to mention delighting the entire Mac using universe.
Sigh... I can always dream.
Not to get too far off topic, but ever wondered what happened to *efficiency* in programming? Remember when downloading a program that was more than 5MB in size was a really big deal? Nowadays, a simple printer driver can weigh in at upwards of 10-50MB. Unbelievable...
A couple of years ago, a company called QNX released a version of their UNIX-based real-time OS, called Neutrino. It fit on a single floppy disk, had a full GUI, web browser and much of the standard utility programs that you'd find on modern operating systems. Sure, Mac OS and Windows were and are a lot prettier and come with tons more functionality, but it still peeves me to no end that 1GB of RAM is now considered the bare minimum for modern mainstream operating systems. You can't tell me that they've added that many more features to warrant needing an extra GB of elbow room to run an OS.