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See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 - Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantl
by omoikane 2y ago
See for example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 - Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? (2023-06-23)
Follow up to the above by the original author:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machines (2023-06-28)
- IshKebab 2y agoThey're opening Notepad and Paint, very simple apps even for the time. Try MS Word. Also Windows NT was released in 1993 when typical PCs were more like 100MHz, so this is getting a 6x speedup from the designed experience.
- omoikane 2y agoThe second article has videos of more comparisons with different software on a greater variety of hardware: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html The point is that the good old days aren't just pure nostalgia, some parts were genuinely good compared to modern bloated software.