From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-15, Simon Clubley    
   wrote:   
   > On 2025-08-14, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Given that Oracle is a software company with a market cap over 600 B$,   
   >> then I would think they know something about software engineering.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Size does not equal engineering skill.   
   >   
   > Anything from Microsoft over the last 25 years.   
   >   
      
   To clarify that: Anything from Microsoft before that was not great   
   either but hardware limitations and making things work on that limited   
   hardware took a far more dominant role in those days.   
      
   However, I wish we still had the Windows 2000 UI instead of the   
   flat 2-D, low contrast, clickable items that do not look like   
   clickable items, and other associated crap that "modern" UIs   
   are infested with. The Windows 2000 UI was easily usable, highly   
   readable, and was straight to the point...   
      
   > Anything from Intel. x86 is a crap, power hungry architecture that   
   > should have been consigned to history. Intel just got very very lucky   
   > and we have all suffered since. For example, Motorola would have been   
   > a far better starting point.   
   >   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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