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Showed a young kid (I think the machine was older than him) an old Gateway G6-300 machine from 1999. Pentium 2 300MHz, 128MB SDRAM, 5GB hdd, Win98 FE, with over
by inversetelecine 3y ago
Showed a young kid (I think the machine was older than him) an old Gateway G6-300 machine from 1999. Pentium 2 300MHz, 128MB SDRAM, 5GB hdd, Win98 FE, with over 3.5 GB free. I'm more a hardware than software person so the main draw for me was the unknown (to me) Chromatic Research Mpact AGP onboard graphics.
Anyway, his comment made me chuckle: "Wow, looks like everything runs pretty quick!" And he was right, everything loaded instantly. Even IE6, Netscape Communicator, Adobe Acrobat 5, etc
- omoikane 3y agoRelated, there was this post from few months back about how everything was more responsive with an older OS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 - Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? Follow up post by the original author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machines
- Tommy430 3y agoNot only that, but even older website layouts were more responsive.