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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: 0.448s | source
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762236 ◴[23 Jun 23 14:33 UTC] No.36447320[source]▶
It is such a pain to write Win32 code that you didn't have time to add all the features that would slow down program launch.
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pkphilip ◴[23 Jun 23 14:37 UTC] No.36447374[source]▶
I know you probably meant it in jest but as someone who wrote a bunch of desktop apps at one time, it was actually easier to develop desktop apps in tools like Delphi in the 1990s than it is to develop apps now.
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1. mike_hearn ◴[23 Jun 23 17:49 UTC] No.36450102[source]▶
But, Delphi existed mostly because of the terrible default Microsoft DX. Writing pure Win32 was indeed pretty awful (and still is).