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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: 0s | source
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II2II ◴[23 Jun 23 14:40 UTC] No.36447429[source]▶
They're loading the toy applications that came with Windows 3.51 an operating system developed when 486's were common and first generation Pentiums were the bleeding edge, so around 100 MHz. (Also, using clock speed alone discounts any generational bumps in efficiency.) Of course it will be fast.
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michaelt ◴[23 Jun 23 15:04 UTC] No.36447815[source]▶
Modern OSes have the technology to make even the calculator app load slowly https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-calculator/+...
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1. pmontra ◴[23 Jun 23 16:30 UTC] No.36449131[source]▶
I checked if I do have Calculator on my Debian and I found it. It opened instantly. However that was an issue for Ubuntu and was fixed in 20.04, three years ago.

By the way, I do my math with bc -l from the command line.