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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by slavik81 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:47AM (#26679075)
That does amaze me. I remember booting taking ages on my 166MHz Windows 98 machine. I'd press the power button and go do something else while it booted.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by Tenoke on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:07AM (#26679432)
What used to get me was that I'd have to reboot on nearly every install/update/significant change to my PC, thus waiting hours total on just booting every month.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by spookthesunset on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:21PM (#26682256)
Not to mention just maintenance reboots because eventually the computer would just get nutty if you didn’t periodically reboot it. Some time around windows 2000 or perhaps even Vista was when you finally could run the OS for weeks without rebooting.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by TheHypnotist on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:23AM (#26680833)
Seriously. From powered off to being on the internet (56k) it was like 5 minutes. Now with my SSD and modern broadband it's about 5 seconds.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by AshamedCaptain on Saturday April 03, 2021 @02:13PM (#26683281)
It is incredible how much people's "perceptions" are altered after a mere 20 years.
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