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Very fast OS

Hmm, how many here were from the Windows 3.1 era???? Hmm?

I had a system running a DX50 chip, Windows 3.11, 4 megs of ram and it would boot in about 20 seconds from switch on. Installed 8 megs of ram, 8 meg Diamond Monster 8 meg video card and it flew through Quake and Quake 2! Dropped my boot speed down to about 12 seconds!

So to the OP, yep, I agree man!! I still have an ole Packard Bell sporting a Pentium 133 and Windows 98SE that boots faster than most modern PC's. It is running a Voodoo 5500 3DFX video card. 12meg card if I remember correctly.
 
stinger608 said:
Hmm, how many here were from the Windows 3.1 era???? Hmm?

I had a system running a DX50 chip, Windows 3.11, 4 megs of ram and it would boot in about 20 seconds from switch on. Installed 8 megs of ram, 8 meg Diamond Monster 8 meg video card and it flew through Quake and Quake 2! Dropped my boot speed down to about 12 seconds!

So to the OP, yep, I agree man!! I still have an ole Packard Bell sporting a Pentium 133 and Windows 98SE that boots faster than most modern PC's. It is running a Voodoo 5500 3DFX video card. 12meg card if I remember correctly.
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Almost any modern system with an SSD goes from cold to fully operational in 8-12 seconds. With the way Windows 8 never fully shuts off, you're usually back to your desktop in under 5.

Old systems are old. Windows 3.11 would boot in less than a second on a modern computer, but you'd lose so much functionality and quality of life in the process as to not be worth it.

So, congratulations in deducing that high end systems of their time can be fast while running software from the same era.
 
Great video. Loved the C64! Why can't I vote this thread 5 stars?

sweenish said:
Almost any modern system with an SSD goes from cold to fully operational in 8-12 seconds. With the way Windows 8 never fully shuts off, you're usually back to your desktop in under 5.
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My MS-DOS boots up in 0 seconds.
 
It was pretty amazing back in the day. I remember installing Windows 3.11 from 6 floppies. You could have a full working Windows computer, with an internet browser, Microsoft Word, and email client, taking about 30 MB of disk space. I have a virtual machine of Windows 3.11 and boot's up ridiculously fast. That said, I have to laugh when I see it - I would never want to go back to that.
 
lamedude said:
Software longevity? Because all those C64 programs ran on a Commodore Amiga oh wait.
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Not the Amiga, no. And their premise is silly anyway.

That said, the C64 came out in '82, and the C128 ran pretty much the entire software library and was discontinued in 1989. That's not Windows XP longevity, but it's a pretty good run.
 
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