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Re:Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from ... by mrighele on Saturday May 13, 2023 @03:13PM (#35931684)
The IO at the time was terrible, also because,if memory serves me right, plenty of disks/controllers didn't support DMA transfers.

But if you had a few megabytes to spare for caching (not everybody did, for sure) the machines would be snappy, because the UI was.

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