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A comment on Windows 96.

Re:Windows 96 by mweberxyz on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:32PM (#27979198)
This is snappier running in my browser than my actual OS shell. Ahh, I miss the simpler days of computing.
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Re:Windows 96 by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:34AM (#27982616)
Turns out that while hardware has become several orders of magnitude more powerful, software has degraded to the point that it makes no real difference.
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Re:Windows 96 by saiya-jin on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:52AM (#27981358)
It is way snappier than it was on any hardware back then, windows movements animate much better etc. Those were the times without any GPU help, running it all on some anemic 486 with maybe 16 MB of RAM and super slow and noisy HDDs which swapped constantly.
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