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by hyperman1 808 days ago
Don't know if this is /s or not, but for me it seems fast, but not extremely so.

My PC from '92, a 386 with 4Mb RAM was a bit slower, but not much. Boot took about a minute, including RAM test. Once in windows 3.1, bigger programs took long to start, but I presume that's mostly RAM limited.

This machine was very powerfull. 16Mb was huge and pentiums were rare.

My biggest slowdown was win95 on I think a cyrix 6x86 with 16Mb. But win95 was such a leap forward that we tolerated it.

SSD's brought us vack to this era of startup speed, and we're quickly regressing again.

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/s
/sorry ;-)