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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 2 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 1.123s | 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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lenkite ◴[23 Jun 23 20:33 UTC] No.36451868[source]▶
People got too used to the Web - slowly loading stuff - and so began to tolerate native apps also loading slow.
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1. palata ◴[23 Jun 23 20:50 UTC] No.36452015[source]▶
And they got too used to receiving updates over the internet (as opposed to buying a CD-ROM), and so began to tolerate software full of bugs.
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2. immibis ◴[24 Jun 23 16:08 UTC] No.36459865[source]▶
This cuts both ways