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by LeoPanthera 756 days ago
This is a silly question.

You can't compare an OS from 22 years ago to an OS from today.

Even if there was a simple definition of "worse", in this context, which there isn't, they're from completely different worlds designed for different uses on different hardware.

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Sure a person can. A consistent metric is how long my key press takes to render on the default terminal.
> You can't compare an OS from 22 years ago to an OS from today.

Yes, because the today's OS looks much worse.

Apollo Domain OS was a distributed, multiuser, multitasking OS (actually 3: Aegis, BSD and SYS5R3) which run on 4 MB of RAM in 1988. Today windows is strugling with 16 GB.