I wish people paid more attention to things which give the appearance of latency, even when none exists.

The Windows volume control in the task bar drives me crazy. You change the volume, and after you mouse-up, this slow building chime plays and fades out. It makes changing the volume feel so slow, especially if you're quickly adjusting it multiple times to dial it in.

It's such a small detail, but it could be so much simpler and feel so much faster.

That's why you use the mouse wheel or mute system sounds. :)

> You change the volume, and after you mouse-up, this slow building chime plays and fades out. It makes changing the volume feel so slow

You click the mouse once at a desired volume level, and get a positive confirmation. I don't understand how this makes the changing of volume to be perceived as slow... Okay, now I see, the new sound effect in Windows 10...

> but it could be so much simpler and feel so much faster.

e.g. Gnome desktop.

So true with the latency. I set up an NT4 VM with word 97 a while back just for a nostalgia trip. Holy shit that is fast. How did they make windows 10 such a chunk of gammon in comparison. Literally no productivity difference has been gained between then and now, just some cheese moved. 21 years of nothing!

I mean, of course it's going to be fast, you're running it on a modern computer. Try my Pentium with 16 MB RAM, that thing would churn forever.

Windows NT "required" a minimum of 32 megabytes of memory back then. So that would definitely be a pretty bad experience

According to Wikipedia, that could go as high as 128 megs for "heavy 3D applications"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0

> Holy shit that is fast.

10 seconds later... BSOD

You're thinking of the 9x kernel. NT was pretty good.

I had an internal NT box up from 1998 to 2001 at the time. It was incredibly reliable.