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

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752 points dceddia | 7 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source | bottom
1. Solvency ◴[23 Jun 23 14:52 UTC] No.36447613[source]▶
And yesterday I was mercilessly downvoted for saying VSCode is slow compared to software from decades ago.
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2. cmcaleer ◴[23 Jun 23 15:47 UTC] No.36448509[source]▶
At least you’re getting a lot for that, though I don’t love Electron either. What does notepad.exe of today have over notepad.exe of 25 years ago? UTF-8 I guess. Not sure if find and replace was a thing in the olden days. Better line ending support too. I’m really wracking my brains here to think of stuff
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3. toast0 ◴[23 Jun 23 16:04 UTC] No.36448754[source]▶
Line numbers came in with XP, I think.
4. SkeuomorphicBee ◴[23 Jun 23 16:54 UTC] No.36449432[source]▶
I'll have to agree to disagree. In my experience IDEs are the one type of software that were always slow, Eclipse is two decades old, and it's slowness was on a whole different level.
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5. Mystery-Machine ◴[23 Jun 23 17:06 UTC] No.36449599[source]▶
I guess you never heard of Sublime text?
6. atchoo ◴[23 Jun 23 18:04 UTC] No.36450275[source]▶
Visual Studio 6 was very fast even on my PoS machine at the time.

Faster than Jetbrains on an M1. Not used VS for a while but holy shit that crapped the bed in 2002 performance wise.

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7. SkeuomorphicBee ◴[23 Jun 23 23:00 UTC] No.36453377{3}[source]▶
I remember differently, I remember visual studio 6 bringing my PC to is knees (although to be fair I was a broke student and my PC was a potato).