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I was playing with a Win98 computer the other day, and it is amazing how well most of the UX has held up even now. And it's so fast, especially considering the
by warning26 4y ago
I was playing with a Win98 computer the other day, and it is amazing how well most of the UX has held up even now. And it's so fast, especially considering the limitations of the hardware it was running on.
Really interesting seeing some of the design process that resulted in it.
- guestbest 4y agoIt’s amazing how fast everything in the core system runs when it runs trusted.
- hayley-patton 4y agoDidn't putting so much rendering code in kernel-space also produce a lot of security bugs in NT? Would be nice to run trustable code in a trusted context if one wants to do so.
- guestbest 4y agoSecurity isn’t an issue when everything is trusted
- hayley-patton 4y agoDoesn't seem like a wise thing to do.
- bluedino 4y agoIt was fast on say, 300mhz and faster hardware, but while watching a video where Windows 95 was running on a 486, I remembered how you used to be able to see individual UI elements being drawn on the screen piece by piece.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> while watching a video where Windows 95 was running on a 486, I remembered how you used to be able to see individual UI elements being drawn on the screen piece by piece. This is pretty much the modern experience with web SPAs, except the hardware can hardly be blamed anymore.
- kristopolous 4y agoreminds me of a parody of "killing me softly" from the era. "Killing my software with windows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYFowc1AlY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXYFowc1AlY "8 megs is recommended but I've got only 5"
- rasz 4y agoWaiting for things to happen on a 486 sure, but not seeing things draw piece by piece. CPU wasnt the problem in that case, but VGA with no acceleration.