[omoikane]

See for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 - Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? (2023-06-23)

Follow up to the above by the original author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983 - Fast machines, slow machines (2023-06-28)

[IshKebab]

They're opening Notepad and Paint, very simple apps even for the time. Try MS Word.

Also Windows NT was released in 1993 when typical PCs were more like 100MHz, so this is getting a 6x speedup from the designed experience.

[omoikane]

The second article has videos of more comparisons with different software on a greater variety of hardware:

https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html

The point is that the good old days aren't just pure nostalgia, some parts were genuinely good compared to modern bloated software.