Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
by wvenable on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:33PM
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> which takes upward of 40 sec to get to the desktop.
My ancient Core i5 with a whopping 4 cores gets to the Windows 10 desktop in just a few seconds.
The truth is that people care much more about features than performance -- especially system/app start up performance. Microsoft has always bet on Moore's law -- building software just not quite usable on modern hardware knowing that eventually hardware will catch up. Anyone designing software for today is immediately behind tomorrow.
My ancient Core i5 with a whopping 4 cores gets to the Windows 10 desktop in just a few seconds.
The truth is that people care much more about features than performance -- especially system/app start up performance. Microsoft has always bet on Moore's law -- building software just not quite usable on modern hardware knowing that eventually hardware will catch up. Anyone designing software for today is immediately behind tomorrow.