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I think nostalgia might have rewritten your memory. Spinning rust disks meant apps would take 5-10 seconds to load, moving and resizing windows was laggy and le
by overgard 3y ago
I think nostalgia might have rewritten your memory. Spinning rust disks meant apps would take 5-10 seconds to load, moving and resizing windows was laggy and left behind repaint artifacts, and anything network related took approximately forever
- wildrhythms 3y agoThere was a recent thread with twitter clips showing old Windows vs. new Windows and how old Windows opened its programs noticeably faster. https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960?s=20 https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960?s=20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983
- acdha 3y agoYes - what he described was the experience using BeOS, which had an amazing I/O scheduler, but switching back to Win95 was noticeably worse on latency. A big problem was I/O deadlines - I knew so many people who burned “coasters” because Win95 and classic MacOS couldn’t reliably feed data to a CD writer with a small buffer. Audio capture and data acquisition were similarly fragile if you needed latency guarantees lower than hundreds of milliseconds.