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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by vel0city on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:00AM (#36447745)
I imagine they're also not using vintage hard drives. Its pretty common in the retro computer world to use things like CF and SD cards for storage emulation. Even a basic CF card is miles faster than a 1990's HDD. Put in a period-accurate storage device and see how bog slow it gets.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by Symbiote on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:18AM (#36448054)
You might try reading the second line of the Tweet before criticising its author.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by vel0city on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:28AM (#36448213)
The text content of the tweets seem pretty unreliable as this states its a Surface Go 2 with a Quad Core i5, despite the fact the Surface Go 2 never shipped with anything quad core and definitely not an i5.

Maybe it is a spinning rust disk. Even then there's a world of difference between a period accurate drive and a late model IDE drive. The last IDE drives had more drive cache than most desktops had RAM when NT was new.

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