stopthegop wrote:
I believe unix was developed in the early 1960s, wasn't it?
You have an Internet. Please use it.Seriously, though, probably half (and now
I'm pulling a figure out of my *) of the bloat in Vista comes from Microsoft finally pushing most of the system into 'userland.'
If they're virtualizing or partitioning multiple working sets of various components that weren't exactly small when they were insecure and shared, it's easy to see why hardware requirements skyrocket.
Or in other words, the price you pay to run the whole existing library of Windows apps (how far back does the compatibility still go?) somewhat securely is up there with the price you'd pay to run multiple instances of older, sloppier MS distributions inside VMWare.
There's probably some irony in how much less overall API turnover various competing OSes had, while still managing to break more apps per update.
