Back then, when I was a kid, I got a computer with MS-DOS that could run Windows 95. The machine only got 800 MB of Hard Disk. I don’t know how much RAM it got - in fact, I didn’t even know what a RAM is, but it was enough to run games like Doom, Sim City 2000, Red Alert, etc. All the pixel good old days. All the regular works such as typing documents, etc. could be carried out as expected. Fast forward a bit, I got a new computer with Pentium 2 with GeForce 2. Amount of RAM for this machine sh...
While true that they are achieved via abstraction, abstraction doesn’t create the better software or the more robust systems.