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Counter argument - HN post from 6 months ago: "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644693

• crazygringo 3y ago
  But here's a counterpoint from within that same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447704 There's also the note that this person was running NT on a later system far, far faster than it was designed for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36447461 When we're trying to reproduce what older systems were like, it's important not to be combining software from earlier era on hardware from a later one.