GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme

Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by setquk on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:52PM (#17242802)

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!

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by StavrosK on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:58PM (#17243818)

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.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by IntelMiner on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:17PM (#17243889)

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

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by rangibaby on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:19PM (#17243670)

> Holy shit that is fast.

10 seconds later... BSOD

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by asveikau on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:09PM (#17243851)

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

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by setquk on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:22AM (#17244763)

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

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