I agree. A few years ago, I powered up some old 166 MHz Windows 95 PC and was surprised how fast it was (certainly not on all tasks, but in general).
And Amiga had no memory protection which means that it would be very unsafe to use Internet with it.
That said BeOS was quite responsive and had memory protection, but still inadequate security for modern security attacks.
Re:Performance Matters
by bmurphy1976 on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:07PM
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The memory protection doesn't account for the performance hit. It's all the layers of shitty software and garbage devices on top.
Memory protection only adds a small performance hit that's true but it also requires a totally different way of working.
I don't know much about Amiga but I remember that when reading about Synthesis (a very fast & low latency kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code#Synthesis ) thinking that it was only possible without memory protection..
It's just that modern software is garbage. That's all.