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is there not, a minor hint of irony here, that when I think of bloated software my mind goes almost immediately to everything Microsoft creates (except VSCode, which is somehow the most performant software they've created despite being written in a language that is theoretically slow)


There was a time when Microsoft wrote extremely lean code, and BillG in particular. Best example: TRS-80 Model 100.


Yes, DONKEY.BAS was legendary... /s




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