Microsoft veteran says the Task Manager was under 80 KB because small was fast and fast mattered

Microsoft veteran Dave Plummer shares why the original Task Manager was lean, fast, and designed to stay calm when Windows ...

Task Manager's creator says it used to be 50 times smaller because 'in that time and place, small was fast and fast mattered'

The Microsoft vet notes that Task Manager is now around 4 megabytes, which is around 50 times bigger. Naturally, Task Manager ...