Modern desktops are overpowered, remember when the cpu had only 33 mhz and did all the tasks just fine?

RAM Disks where perfectly normal at the time.
You downloaded a compressed file, you would extract it to the RAM Drive for example or download it straight to the RAM Drive in the first place and extract it from there. It also served as your temporary folder.

It's not that desktops are overpowered. Software is just way worse.

>boomer
Back to with you

implying in the early k's people bought a new computer every couple years

How the fug would you even be able to browse Jow Forums with a 33Mhz CPU? It's impossible.

>Thinks /n/g/ is older than 18

My tasks require the maximum amount of MIPS, so no, some virtual abacus will not do.

I agree modern computers are overpowered, and I think it makes people write shittier software and not worry about performance as much.

How is that a problem? Shorter dev time >> 5% perf increase

Nobody is implying that, just that people made dumb decisions.
Generally they also did though, at least people who actually gave a fuck, like you'd expect from people who go on a technology forum.

It's a way bigger difference than that. FYI I'm not talking about all software. Consider also that chart showing latency on the Apple II compared to modern stuff, and how worse it is.

That chart had a skylake i5 near the top....

That's the thing, developer time these days means more than user time.

I definitely don't recall such a thing. I think I saw it as an image on Jow Forums, but I also found this article: extremetech.com/computing/261148-modern-computers-struggle-match-input-latency-apple-iie

Yes. It's impossible.

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Definitely impossible.

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>68040 at 32 MHz
Disqualified!

I am in fact using a 16.5MHz oscillator. The actual clock is 32.989.... Only the first two digits are displayed. Third party system profilers show it correctly as 33Mhz.

does it take a reasonable amount of time to load?

That depends what a reasonable amount is. Around 10-12 seconds for this thread.
More if the thread has more pictures, less if you disable pictures and only load them optionally by clicking on each one.

>having to disable pictures to get it to work

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Except you don't, it works fine but loads slower, as each picture thumbnail gets downloaded at once, instead of when you optionally choose it to.

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sauce on the pic?
is it by yuzuki n dash?

mice from that era were such cancer

>did all the tasks just fine

It still does. It's just that you can't use web anymore on it.

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>NaPaTa
I did some searching on NaPaTa before asking. I thought she's Rin Shibuya from NaPaTa doujin. Sad panda doesn't have NaPaTa manga because it's wani stuff. Thanks, senpai.

Sad panda has it, it's under the name "Lovely Lover's Love" plus with a bunch of other NaPaTa stuff, but who knows for how long.

I can't even imagine running a windowing system on 33mhz

bullshit, what does microsoft word do now that word 97 did not?

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The majority of tasks are the same, actually.

Reading articles, preparing documents, listening to music, messaging/emails; all these things work at the same speed/slower today than they did 15/20 years ago. Faster CPUs have made some developers lazier.

However, anything involving 3D graphics, image/video processing, machine learning, etc. actually requires multiple GHz. Development in these areas is still done efficiently.

You're right. Someone re-uploaded it last month and it's expunged now. I didn't check the expunged ones.

Objectively a 48mb hello world app with modern memory sizes weighs in at about the same percentage of memory usage as your so called "optimised" apps would have, if not vastly less memory. In conclusion, Software Engineering now is more efficient than ever.

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That's exactly what the problem with modern software is.

I am old. I started looking at internet porn in the mid 90s on dialup. It would take sooooo long for a single image to load. Videos would have been impossible.

1999: Start video encode, walk away from PC and leave it alone for a day or two
2018: Start video encode, play AAA game while streaming it to Twitch, have 15 torrents going, Chrome runs in background with 10 tabs each running zillions of javascript ads and other unnecessary things, Nvidia Experience is doing who the fuck knows what. An hour later your video encode is done.

Woah there grandpa stop talking about technology made before the year 2010. It gets in the way of my GPU and iphone threads.

use adblocks, r-tard

> As long as hardware improvement keeps up with software bloat, at least things won't get worse!

Your actual logic

Oh right it was a haswell. Modern CPUs will easily perform better.

This but unironically

Cars today are overpowered. Remember when you could just walk to your destination just fine ?

How about 1Mhz and 64k of RAM?

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OK BOOMER

this

After assembling a late 90s era computer for playing games that required 3dfx accelerators and supports A3D/EAX, I found that a lot of what I do on my current computer works just fine on a Pentium III. It was quick and snappy for most things, but is too slow for high definition video. Makes me wonder how snappy current computers would be if software wasn't so slow and sluggish. I think the hardware we have is fine, but the software have been going backwards since the early 00s (one step forward, two steps back).

I loved that Vista pushed developers into making software that could run as a regular user (not as administrator), but everything I did on that computer felt so much more sluggish compared to my older one with Win2k, and 7 didn't improve much with the sluggishness.

That's like comparing a computer with counting with your fingers. How about a 2018 model compared to a 1988-1998 model?

really? i'm not even that old, and the slowest machine i've owned was a 386SX-16 (16MHz) box with windows 3.11, i've also run win95 on a 486SX-25 laptop, both of which ran just fine
it's more about whether you have enough ram for one, and how sensitive you are to responsive graphics, that is, nowadays you just expect windows to pop up with all their content already there, and dragging windows to be as fast as your mouse movement... where on machines like the above, you would see individual elements being drawn to the display, and dragging a window was choppy enough on low end hardware that there was usually an option to display only an outline of the window as it was being dragged (since it's easier to place a fast-reacting box than a slow as molasses whole window)

I feel like we're not discussing the same thing here.

>I found that a lot of what I do on my current computer works just fine on a Pentium III.
I started to drift toward more minimal software after using GNU/Linux for a while. Just because it feels better and I prefer it. I could do most of my computing on much weaker hardware now, but if you asked me to a few years ago it might be a more painful transition. I'm a lot more used to cli/tui programs now, so just as you said, video is the main thing that comes to mind that I'd miss out on. After that, browsing the modern web, especially with my current habits that involve a lot of tabs at once.

that line-by-line delivery, heh

>remember when the cpu had only 33 mhz and did all the tasks just fine?
It was actually awfuly slow even for early 90's days. I had 4MB ram and I couldnt even play Sim City 2000 without it being painfully slow. I didn't have a sound card and only 16 colors. It was awful. Perhaps if I had those luxuries the experience would have been much better for me.

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tell me more

but whyyy?

seems 4chin doesn't support nutscrape

>a 48mb hello world app

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fake user agent

Magic... I mean Commodore 64 with GEOS.