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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: 0.209s | source
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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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1. 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.