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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: 0.204s | 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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1. agumonkey ◴[24 Jun 23 00:49 UTC] No.36454246[source]▶
Reminds me of my hp48 calc, which original system was often .. sluggish, but with enough input buffer and predictability (stack + RPL) meant that it was actually beneficial since it forced you to learn things by heart and anticipate more, and the pauses would serve as thinking time for your brain. A rare kind of slow and laggy turning out to be fun.

Also impressive how our brain is sensitive to all of this.. no matter how impressive a current OS / web browser / jitted js is.. I dearly miss the past eras "behavior".