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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Sometimes I long for the days in which an operating system was like 6-7 MB after installation (MS-DOS 6.22)
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...which the UNIX guys used to say was not an OS, but "a brain-dead program loader."
I guess it wasn't big and bloated enough. ;-)
At some point things in the Microsoft world switched from when most of the time spent configuring an OS was spent getting it to do stuff you wanted, to when most of the time is spent preventing it from doing stuff you don't.