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anon began programming on IBM 360/70 in the 60s at a major university. students in CS101 were allotted 16K of RAM to execute all programs. the professor was allotted 64K of RAM. using only his allocated RAM, the prof wrote a chess program, that executed in 64K of RAM, and was able to consistently beat the best chess players on the campus. of course, you had to type your move in on a terminal, and a dot matrix printer typed out the computer's move, but it DID THE JOB. you johnny come latelies are confused by constant exposure to BLOATWARE. unless you're doing video editing or high-end QM computations, a 286 processor is 1000 times more powerful than you need for most basic office functions, and a 40 meg HD enough for all your files. BLOATWARE is just one more scam to make you spend money on a new computer and new peripherals every year, when the truth is that for a lot of people, a MacPlus was all the computer they ever needed.