[rep_lodsb]

"Software professionals" are precisely the people who should be forced to use the cheapest computers available 10 years ago!

Hell, we already had graphical OSes back in the 90s, when RAM was about the same size that is now L3 cache, swapping to hard drives the size of today's RAM. And of course each disk access was audible, so that you could tell when the computer was working hard. Imagine a little clicking noise on every cache miss today!

To a large extent, it's the absolutely moronic code banged out by "professionals", with its dependence on libraries upon libraries, JSON or XML encoded everything (because binary formats = scary! can't manipulate them with regular expressions!), that is responsible for modern software taking noticeable time to react to a simple key press, even when running on a CPU that can do dozens of 64-bit operations in the time it takes light to travel from the monitor to your eyes.

That said, I would agree that the article isn't very good, it contains a lot of conspiracy mongering and 4chan-like language.