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But what if I want a faster horse?

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1525 points saeedesmaili | 2 comments | 11 Apr 25 11:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.478s | source
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andai ◴[11 Apr 25 13:02 UTC] No.43653301[source]▶
Ironically the old horses were faster! Run XP on modern hardware (if you can get it running at all) and you'll see what I mean. Explorer opens fully rendered in the span of a single frame (0.016 seconds). And XP was very slow and bloated for its time!

It'll do this even in VirtualBox, running about 20x snappier than the native host, which boggles my mind.

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1. piperswe ◴[12 Apr 25 18:26 UTC] No.43666798[source]▶
Hell, my Windows XP system with a nearly 20 year old processor (Q6600, ~17ish years old) still instantly does almost everything.
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2. DavidPiper ◴[13 Apr 25 08:06 UTC] No.43670992[source]▶
You just gave me a hell of an nostalgia hit with "Q6600". Remember when clock speed, cache size and core count were all we cared about? AMD hadn't event bought ATI yet.

Maybe I'll spin up an XP VirtualBox off the back of this thread just for old times' sake and see what happens.