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BeOS was magically snappy and responsive on 7200RPM spinning rust with a single-core 166Mhz Pentium and 128MB of memory. Felt luxuriously powerful. The only wid
by yamtaddle 4y ago
BeOS was magically snappy and responsive on 7200RPM spinning rust with a single-core 166Mhz Pentium and 128MB of memory. Felt luxuriously powerful. The only widespread current OS that's even close to that level of responsiveness and good-use-of-resources is iOS, and it's been slipping for years such that I now hesitate to make the comparison. And it gets there largely by cheating (suspending backgrounded programs).