Those were the days. Getting PCPro or PCPlus magazines with a 3 1/2-inch floppy disk packed with software! Even prior to that, you could fill a 5.25-inch floppy with heaps of software.
So many factors... programs were simpler, programming languages were limited in features and libraries were simpler and smaller, operating systems were less demanding. The fact hardware systems and the media that carried this software at the time was also very limited in storage and processing capacity also forced programmers to squeeze their code to the best of their abilities.
