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Of Model Changeovers, Style, and Fatware

Robert L. Glass (rlglass@acm.org)

So you think there's too much "fatware" in the software world? Software packages that have far more features and capabilities than the average user needs or wants? Well, I do. I could have gone on happily, using my ancient WordStar word processor, for example, if the computer on which it ran hadn't up and died on me. (It's an interesting example: hardware wears out and breaks, but software never does. Witness all that Y2K software still running long after its programmers decided that two-digit years would last the lifetime of the program.)

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