>>19847793if you haven't heard of it already, you were made for the "440hz vs 432hz" conspiracy theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjR0WpWwLrE>>19847781In the end, the real cause of the bloated and slowed down modern OS's was the need for increased storage.
Back in the 80's, you could fit an entire OK on a single 5.25" floppy; but it was 8-bit, so you were limited in both the size of the ram, and the size of your hard drives (how many addresses the computer could access).
The move to 16 bit, and then 32 bit, was more about allowing for increased storage than anything else. Meanwhile, your OS was now 8X the size simply from being a higher bit count; even if most of those bits were still packed with 0's half the time.
That happened again even recently. The old 16-bit OS's were limited to 2-TB in address; which caused the need to increase to 64-bit OS.
>>19847801Back around 1977, (during the teletype days), there was a local school BBS that I would use. One day, a teacher left it on the hook without hanging it up; so I hopped on and looked around or a while, chatting a few people up.
That night, my father got a call from someone in the school district which accused me of "breaking into their computer system". Nothing happened with it; and (me being a sucker), it took me nearly a decade to figure out that my father, at the time, got a kick out of having a son "that clever".
> if i had a modem back then who knows what would have happenedIt is a blessing usenet (and alt.binaries) was gone before everything you did on the internet was monitored
