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The improvements you describe come down to one thing: solid state drives. If we had them in the 90s, your software would've been starting up just as fast (or ev
by bigstrat2003 1y ago
The improvements you describe come down to one thing: solid state drives. If we had them in the 90s, your software would've been starting up just as fast (or even faster) then. Meanwhile, once the software did start, it ran faster and with fewer resources than software does today. It's not rose colored glasses: software today truly is worse on average than software 20 years ago.
- jama211 1y agoYou say that like once the software has started it had washed its hands of that slow spinning disk, anything that interacts with data (god, remember trying to do video editing 20 years ago?? It was hell) was a nightmare. And oh yeah, 100% I agree SSD’s are a huge factor as to why software runs faster now than it used to on average for day to day activities. Thanks for mentioning one of the things that helps demonstrate my point. But it is not the only thing, that’s for sure. I can think of a few other critical things that made usage of computing faster over the years, and I bet you can too. Partially unrelated but I once downloaded anime on dialup, used to take 30 hours per episode at low quality…