A letter from 1997 complaining about bloat in PC software. If only windows ran with 100Mb RAM now:
"We have Microsoft forcing ever-larger applications upon us (the new version of Works is rumoured to require 150Mb of disk space..Where will we be in another 10 years? Will Windows 2007 require yet more RAM (say 100Mb) and yet more disk space (say 1Gb)?"
https://archive.org/details/palmtop-issue-13/page/13/mode/2up
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