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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 1 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.265s | source
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kneebonian ◴[23 Jun 23 14:25 UTC] No.36447224[source]▶
Every developer for the past two decades has been banking on Moore to save them from the consequences of poorly written code and importing a boatload of 3rd party dependencies but Moore is running out of funds and the bill is coming due.

That's what happened.

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1. toyg ◴[23 Jun 23 14:33 UTC] No.36447329[source]▶
I think you can add a couple of decades to that statement. People were already complaining about poor C code, when you could write "proper" performant code in assembler...