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They're loading the toy applications that came with Windows 3.51 an operating system developed when 486's were common and first generation Pentiums were the ble
by II2II 3y ago
They're loading the toy applications that came with Windows 3.51 an operating system developed when 486's were common and first generation Pentiums were the bleeding edge, so around 100 MHz. (Also, using clock speed alone discounts any generational bumps in efficiency.) Of course it will be fast.
- mrkeen 3y agoThe same apps were opened on his modern machine for comparison. Are windows explorer, notepad and command prompt toy apps?
- dtx1 3y ago> Are windows explorer, notepad and command prompt toy apps? Yes.
- II2II 3y agoPlease don't take my excuses the wrong way, since I wish the performance in software reflected the increased performance of hardware, but we are comparing the performance of an operating system released five years prior to the CPU it is being run on to the performance of an operating system contemporary to the CPU. A couple of other things to note: the comparison uses a bleeding edge Intel processor for Windows NT and, to try to be polite about it, a processor optimized for energy efficiency for Windows 11. (If the tests depended upon CPU performance alone, the benchmarks for processor in the Surface Go 2 are comparable to my 11 year old i5 3330. That i5 wasn't even a high end processor at the time.) The second thing to consider is that performance gains were much more dramatic back then, so even if we could test Windows 11 on a 2026 processor, I wouldn't expect such dramatic results.
- a2tech 3y agoWindows 95 running on a 133mhz computer would open Excel (I believe from Office 98) essentially instantly once the machine was up and running. Which unless you had AV running took under a minute.
- michaelt 3y agoModern OSes have the technology to make even the calculator app load slowly https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-calculator/+bug/1797734 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-calculator/+...
- pmontra 3y agoI checked if I do have Calculator on my Debian and I found it. It opened instantly. However that was an issue for Ubuntu and was fixed in 20.04, three years ago. By the way, I do my math with bc -l from the command line.