Post #2075037
2026-05-06 08:36 UTC
I once booted MS-DOS on my 2011-ish crappy laptop that I use specifically for testing things. Was amazed by how instant everything is. There's no perceptible input lag at all. Things like dir take zero time as far as I'm concerned. Games launch instantly as well.
This made me wonder how fast would Windows 9x be on modern hardware.
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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social 2026-05-06 22:52
@grishka @MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz Yes, text is always faster than GUI, because 1 byte is 1 character but in graphics 1 byte is 1 pixel, so everyone wanting pretty pics on their web-pages was the first step in the big slow-down (in the early days I used Lynx mostly, unless it was necessary to have pics for what I was doing), and then along came video on web...