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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by goatinaboat on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:43PM (#23274025)
How does that even make sense?

Because that was the experience on those old machines. Switch it on, straight to BASIC prompt in a second or so. If you want to program it’s frictionless. And you can’t break it because BASIC is in ROM.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by harpratap on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:59PM (#23274269)
Flexibility vs complexity is a slippery slope.
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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by cycomanic on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:32AM (#23280193)
If you want that today get a BBC microbit, switch on and you're directly in a python environment
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