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> The sluggishness of the OS even on super-powerful machines is painful to witness and might even lead to the demise of this OS. NT has been sluggish since _fo
by AshamedCaptain 2y ago
> The sluggishness of the OS even on super-powerful machines is painful to witness and might even lead to the demise of this OS.
NT has been sluggish since _forever_. It is hardly a bloated GUI problem. On machines were 9x would literally fly NT would fail to boot due to low memory.
- nullindividual 2y agoNot sure what NT4 systems you were dealing with, but I've dealt with ones thrashing the page file on spinning rust and the GUI is still responsive. NT4 had a higher base RAM requirement than 9x. Significantly so.
- AshamedCaptain 2y agoThe point being, 3.x/9x and NT using the same GUI, yet NT consistently requiring up to 4 times more RAM. NT itself was ridiculously bloated, not the GUI.