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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: 0.211s | source
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cmiles74 ◴[23 Jun 23 14:43 UTC] No.36447480[source]▶
Back in the day I had a Windows NT 3.51 machine sitting on my desk, right next to a HP 9000 workstation (PA-RISC) running HP-UX; I do not remember the NT machine being this responsive. It wasn't terrible but I did most of my work on the 9000 because it felt faster than the NT machine.

I wonder if the 600MHz machine in this video is fitted with an SSD of some sort, this would load applications far faster than the average hard drive from 1998.

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1. unregistereddev ◴[23 Jun 23 15:16 UTC] No.36448003[source]▶
You might be onto something. As P3 class hardware started to age, IDE to CompactFlash adapters came on the market as an option to replace aging mechanical hard drives.