Originally Posted by
le Pingouin
Computing moves on and it becomes harder and harder to bolt improvements on to a clunky old chassis without cutting and welding.
The problem is that many of these supposed improvements are not used nor wanted by the majority of institutional users. They
do want a bug-free, unhijackable machine, but they
don't need an enhanced "user experience" when most of the time the computer is being used for relatively simple tasks like text entry and spread-sheet construction.
I am quite proud that my eldest, recently embarked on a computer science degree, has taken after his old man and delights in persuading his programmable calculator to accomplish with 125kB of RAM what his classmates are struggling to do with 4GB.