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> Don’t you find it a bit funny that Windows 95 is actually snappier than Windows 10? Comparing them on the same hardware?

agumonkey 9y ago
not a problem, let's find some p2 boxes on ebay. ps: every time I boot an old desktop I always have this feeling. The new stacks are amazing, they do it all, but .. I love the immediate feeling of the old ones, even at some cost. And this comes from a compositing fetishist.
Cthulhu_ 9y ago
There was a similar article a while ago comparing it to an Apple II, where Apple II was snappier on its own hardware compared to a modern computer.
- StillBored 9y ago
  I might be interested in seeing that if you can find the link. I have a transwarped IIGS, which for CPU benchmarks is slower than most of the modern emulators, but on the actual hardware its pretty amazing (particularly since it boots faster from a compaq flash card than most win10 PC's i've seen). I would guess that a USB keyboard->windows->emulator->app response->draw->Emulator->windows->gpu path is much, much longer than the IIGS keyboard poll rate draw cycle even given the 1000 cycle/sec advantage a modern PC has.
amiga-workbench 9y ago
Try popping the start menu open on a Windows 10 machine with a mechanical hard drive.
- laumars 9y ago
  It wasn't much better on Windows 95 on average hardware around the time of the release of Windows 95. Heck, if you dared click [Start] as soon as the desktop displayed (read: Windows hadn't yet finished booting) then the whole OS would hang for several minutes.
  - rasz 9y ago
    Windows 95 had a ton of "clever" tricks, like "OLE Chicken" aka shimming in fake OLE instead of loading real thing just to display desktop faster, executing anything triggered .dll load anyway, but official metric was blue desktop.... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040705-00/?p=38573 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040705-00/?p=...
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agumonkey 9y ago

not a problem, let's find some p2 boxes on ebay. ps: every time I boot an old desktop I always have this feeling. The new stacks are amazing, they do it all, but .. I love the immediate feeling of the old ones, even at some cost. And this comes from a compositing fetishist.

Cthulhu_ 9y ago

There was a similar article a while ago comparing it to an Apple II, where Apple II was snappier on its own hardware compared to a modern computer.

StillBored 9y ago
I might be interested in seeing that if you can find the link. I have a transwarped IIGS, which for CPU benchmarks is slower than most of the modern emulators, but on the actual hardware its pretty amazing (particularly since it boots faster from a compaq flash card than most win10 PC's i've seen). I would guess that a USB keyboard->windows->emulator->app response->draw->Emulator->windows->gpu path is much, much longer than the IIGS keyboard poll rate draw cycle even given the 1000 cycle/sec advantage a modern PC has.

amiga-workbench 9y ago

Try popping the start menu open on a Windows 10 machine with a mechanical hard drive.

laumars 9y ago
It wasn't much better on Windows 95 on average hardware around the time of the release of Windows 95. Heck, if you dared click [Start] as soon as the desktop displayed (read: Windows hadn't yet finished booting) then the whole OS would hang for several minutes.
- rasz 9y ago
  Windows 95 had a ton of "clever" tricks, like "OLE Chicken" aka shimming in fake OLE instead of loading real thing just to display desktop faster, executing anything triggered .dll load anyway, but official metric was blue desktop.... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040705-00/?p=38573 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040705-00/?p=...
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