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editing win.ini and config.ini and config.sys and autoexec bat and running memmaker all in a desperate hope


Of course, people using the (equally under-powered) Macs of the day never had to do that. So there is an existence proof that modern-day bloat is not required in order to make things easier, cleaner, better, and more efficient.

(I know, I know, non-multi-tasking Macs made us deal with extreme weirdnesses like "Switcher" and "Desk Accessories" and you could hack around with RegEdit to tweak things. But you didn't have to do it, like you did on Paleolithic era PCs. And yes, under the hood Macs were nearly as ugly as PCs. Remember the days when some system calls took "Pascal Strings" and others took "C Strings" for no clear apparent reason?)


Don't forget extension and control panel managment, the joys of having to manually allocate memory to programs if the defaults wern't good enough, the higher odds then a PC of the time that a bad program would take out everything, and the odd functions like "Rebuild the desktop".

All of these managment fuctions are missing from OS X. Sure, many of the concepts still exist, but are either automatic, or are just taken care of by some process.