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> I've still got a Commodore 64 complete with tape deck and more games than I can count, I'll probably never part with it and to this day it still works better than any console or computer I've owned since.

Is built better, maybe. But "works better"? It would take that thing 20 minutes just to load Ghostbusters. That in no way could be considered working better than today's computers/consoles.

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> It would take that thing 20 minutes just to load Ghostbusters. That in no way could be considered working better than today's computers/consoles.

The solution to this is simple: Pick some arbitrary point in the past, and declare that every feature which became common after that point is 'bloat' that 'nobody really needs'. Obviously, a good program doesn't have bloat, and a good system can't be expected to run well unless it is given good programs, so all good systems run well, which means better than anything that will run bloat.