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		cmiles74 on June 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly.... Back in the day I had a Windows NT 3.51 machine sitting on my desk, right next to a HP 9000 workstation (PA-RISC) running HP-UX; I do not remember the NT machine being this responsive. It wasn't terrible but I did most of my work on the 9000 because it felt faster than the NT machine. I wonder if the 600MHz machine in this video is fitted with an SSD of some sort, this would load applications far faster than the average hard drive from 1998.

unregistereddev on June 23, 2023 [–]

You might be onto something. As P3 class hardware started to age, IDE to CompactFlash adapters came on the market as an option to replace aging mechanical hard drives.

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