Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB to run on 1990s computers
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Microsoft's original 80KB Task Manager from the 1990s used extreme optimization techniques like loading strings once and batch kernel queries. Today's 4MB version reflects how resource constraints once forced minimalist coding where every line mattered.
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