This is something that has been known for years, even some papers about it. Apparently human perception time is the determining factor. Faster processors, more complex (which of course doesn't mean better) sw, the speed x complexity seems to be a constant. Don't get me started on how lame modern sw is, just bloat on top of bloat. Yes, I'm an EE, and yes, I went to the dark side, sw. Just stunned at what has happened to sw from my early assembly, then C, now Java days. No 'programmers' now even know what a byte is, no wonder that sw that used to run in kbytes now take gigabytes.
