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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: 0.219s | source
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yomlica8 ◴[23 Jun 23 14:32 UTC] No.36447314[source]▶
It blows my mind how unresponsive modern tech is, and it frustrates me constantly. What makes it even worse is how unpredictable the lags are so you can't even train yourself around it.

I was watching Halt and Catch Fire and in the first season the engineering team makes a great effort to meet something called the "Doherty Threshold" to keep the responsiveness of the machine so the user doesn't get frustrated and lose interest. I guess that is lost to time!

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Retr0id ◴[23 Jun 23 14:45 UTC] No.36447520[source]▶
Unfortunately for most users of most software, "losing interest" isn't really an option - they need it to do some job or other.
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1. jprete ◴[23 Jun 23 14:58 UTC] No.36447716[source]▶
I get your point, but "losing interest" can also mean losing flow, because the user got interrupted for five seconds instead of instantly taking the next action in their mental plan.

When apps have these kinds of interruptions all over the place, that's even worse than just having them at startup.