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A few months ago I installed the venerable OPENSTEP 4.2 on an old Thinkpad T60 using a T7200 CPU and a PATA SSD, with about 950MB of usable RAM. On top of that I installed as many flagship applications as i could find to get an idea how working in such a vintage environment would feel like. The applications included FrameMaker, WordPerfect, the complete Lighthouse Suite of word processors and spread sheets, and a few dozen more applications.

The execution speed and general performance of these very capable applications on that old vintage Thinkpad was absolutely amazing. If this environment would be capable running on a more modern machine there wouldn't be much to miss, as these old applications are already sophisticated enough to get real work done. And definitely at a much more snappier pace than all those contemporary software behemoths we are blessed with today.