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You kids these days don't know how good you have it. Back in the day, when applications ran on the computer instead of in the browser, we would have killed to have only 76 different configurations to support. (And I'm not joking, though I am smiling ruefully.)



Pshaw.

We had one computer. And one program that ran on it. And we liked it that way.

(OK, but we had a gazillion VMs so we could all run our one program on our one computer, except that we could never schedule any CPU time).




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