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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: 0.224s | source
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mydriasis ◴[23 Jun 23 14:49 UTC] No.36447570[source]▶
Not gonna lie, my memory serves me well. I remember using Windows 98 on an old PC, and it was hot garbage. It took generations to boot up, and applications took generations to open. My story is anecdata, but so it this twitter post. These days I have an infinitely snappy experience with desktop linux on an SSD.
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1. chlorion ◴[24 Jun 23 03:47 UTC] No.36455348[source]▶
I had the same experience.

I remember going to a friends house and using their computer, and it took several minutes to boot, and even after it reached the desktop it still took more time for things to become responsive. Opening any program took at least 10 seconds, possibly more.

Those old HDDs could only reach low double digit IOPS, so opening a program would cause the entire system to become unresponsive until it was loaded!

Modern SSDs are massively faster, and stay fast even when heavily used! Some of the modern SSDs are even faster when lots of operations are queued up!