Re:Why modern software is slow
by TylerE on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:40AM
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I had a cdrom drive in a 486 with 8mb of RAM and ~200MB of disk. I could either have a game or two installed (which at the time invariably ran in DOS) or Windows 3.1 installed. Not both.
At the time it was like… wait I just bought this fancy CD-ROM… why do I need to install 30 or 40 whole megabytes to disk to play it?
At that time it was pretty common to actually install all the game files to disk (drives were slow… I think it was 4x read speed) and then the music was encoded in the cd as additional tracks of plain CD audio.
At the time it was like… wait I just bought this fancy CD-ROM… why do I need to install 30 or 40 whole megabytes to disk to play it?
At that time it was pretty common to actually install all the game files to disk (drives were slow… I think it was 4x read speed) and then the music was encoded in the cd as additional tracks of plain CD audio.