[GekkePrutser]

I agree with your points except for this: a Cray-1 is much less powerful than my desktop yes. But that doesn't mean we take advantage of that power. Most of it is wasted drawing transparency effects and YouTube videos.

I'm sure that what most people do in excel now would have been just as feasible on Lotus 1-2-3 running on a 286 in 1986. With the exception of those incorrectly using it as a database for millions of rows :P