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IO was slow. Once stuff was in RAM, it was quite fast.
by MrBuddyCasino 3y ago
IO was slow. Once stuff was in RAM, it was quite fast.
- mrighele 3y agoAt least at the beginning not everybody had hardware that supported DMA for disk access (and those that had it, not always had it configured properly). That meant burning CPU cycles just for doing IO.
- JD557 3y agoThis. I was recently backing up some stuff from an old Mac OS 8 machine and it was amazing how snappy a lot of things feel. But if something is not on RAM you can clearly notice it.
- ben_w 3y agoAh, I remember those days. Around that era, dragging windows around the screen was switching from "draw outline" to "draw the actual window".
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- cout 3y agoDrawing to the screen was also slow until accelerated 2D cards came along.