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Re:I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020) by alisonkisk on Sunday January 16, 2022 @10:20AM (#29956641)
Also "Graceful Degradation".
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Re:I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020) by emllnd on Sunday January 16, 2022 @10:36AM (#29956787)
And "Progressive Enhancement" [1], although that is usually used in web development context.

Adjusting the introductory statement on that Mozilla page we could arrive at something like:

"Progressive enhancement is a design philosophy that provides a baseline of essential content and functionality to as many users as possible, while delivering the best possible experience only to users" ...whose computers have sufficient resources such as RAM and CPU cycles available to process and display it.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Progressiv...

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