Why do simple apps use a lot of RAM?

[metalmackey]

Hi Guys

Before people start jumping on me saying "Its only a few meg, you have loads so stop moaning", I'm only wondering why and not moaning

How come a simple app like Notepad for example uses over 2 megs of RAM when on say the Amiga a text editor would use a tenth of that?

Ta

 

[metalmackey]

Hmmmmmmmm, so has programing easier or hardr now (in general). I'm guessing as hardware get faster programs need to be less optimised as they used to be and there isn't such a huge difference in speed as there used to be using different languages.