Why have the minimum specs to run modern operating systems and software become so bloated over time?

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Even basic software like web browsers can really eat away at a few gigabytes of RAM if you have multiple tabs open, yet in the era of Windows ’98 and the like computers would often have only like 80 megabytes of system memory and about 6 gigabytes of storage if you were lucky.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Software gets more features.

Browsers in win98 days didn’t have a sophisticated javascript engine that allows you to run modern rich dynamic sites.

Browsers in win98 days didnt have tabbing that isolates each site so malicious code on one site doesn’t sniff your data on another tab.

Browsers in win98 days didn’t have form autocomplete and secure saving of credit card information.

Etc etc

Go to settings, advanced. Every one of those items does something in the background without the user being aware of it. Each of those items is feature code running

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