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

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752 points dceddia | 4 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.609s | source
1. andsoitis ◴[23 Jun 23 14:47 UTC] No.36447545[source]▶
Opening Notepad, a DOS prompt, and Paint do not faithfully represent the app load speed experience on that hardware. Try Microsoft Office, or CorelDraw, etc.
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2. BaseballPhysics ◴[23 Jun 23 14:53 UTC] No.36447618[source]▶
Yup. Meanwhile I can fire up nvim or Gnumeric and they also launch basically instantaneously. Selection bias, it's a thing.
3. _dain_ ◴[23 Jun 23 22:39 UTC] No.36453170[source]▶
You can open notepad, a terminal prompt, and paint on modern Windows and it will be sluggish.
4. hollandheese ◴[24 Jun 23 04:15 UTC] No.36455506[source]▶
Word 97 opens instantly on my Pentium MMX 200 Mhz with Windows 98 SE (64MB PC66 SDRAM, 8 GB CF Card running in PIO Mode 4). This is a little faster than my Surface Pro 9 opening Word 365.