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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tore Eriksson writes:
> So I have a Pentium 450 with 12 Gb HD and 128 Mb RAM and Win98. It takes
> two minutes from power-on to have get a blank notepad window opened.
> Same thing takes less than a minute on my old Pentium 120 with Win95. It
> took less than 20 seconds from power-on to launch Norton Commander on my
> 286, and my Luxor ABC-80 loaded its Basic compiler (well, sort of
> Basic...) even before the monitor was lit.
> [...]
Isn't "progress" great? ;-)
> For some reason, the word "powerful" seems to me more and more equal to
> "slow". Yes, I know I'm not fair. The same POV rendering that took 5:57
> on my P120 takes 1:03 on my P450. But while some "cool" effects like 3D
> stuff get faster, it seems the basics like booting up, checking mailbox,
> plain word processing gets slower the more "powerful" your hard- and
> software is.
Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system
vendor.
They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower
and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and faster processors
to compensate. It's been that way at least as far back as 1985... :-(
--Todd
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