Movie showing that PC with Windows NT 3.51 Windows 2000 with 600 MHz CPU starts software faster than PC with 2.4 GHz quad core processor & Windows 11



Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, said in `` Moore's Law '' that `` the integration density of semiconductors will double in 18 to 24 months, and even if the performance of chips doubles, further miniaturization will proceed. We made predictions about progress. Semiconductors have progressed as predicted, and the performance of PCs has improved day by day, but software engineer Giulio Merino said, ``I think the software startup speed is slower than before.'' questioning.

Below is a movie shown by Mr. Merino that starts 'Explorer', 'Command Prompt', 'Notepad' and 'Paint' in order on Surface Go 2 with Windows 11 and ends. The CPU is a quad-core Core i5 processor with an operating frequency of 2.4 GHz, and the memory is 8 GB with SSD.



On the other hand, a 600 MHz CPU, 128 MB memory, HDD installed, OS Windows NT 3.51 PC starts the same four software. The startup speed is a level that is not exaggerated even if it is expressed as 'instantaneous'.



Windows NT 3.51 was an old OS compared to the PC, so in order to make it a fair condition, the following movie tried the same thing with Windows 2000, which appeared in 1999, the same as the PC. After all, it is so fast that there is no problem even if it is expressed as 'starting in an instant'.



And in response to complaints that the Surface Go 2 is underpowered, Merino is doing the same with the Mac Pro, which has a 3.5GHz 6-core CPU and 32GB of memory. As a result, the impression that the start-up is still a little loose ... ....



This topic will collect comments on the social news site Hacker News, and Mr. Merino himself has also posted comments.

Hey folks, author of the Twitter thread here. It's pretty funny how a pair of cr... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36450457

According to Merino, the first two videos were filmed in about five minutes and he didn't expect them to go viral, so he admits they're problematic.

Mr. Merino does not intend to defend the PC of 20 years ago, there are many improvements such as I / O, graphics, high-speed network, etc., and thanks to excellent languages and virtual machines, new types of development and deployment After stating that it is now possible to do so, he points out the problem that ``the UI has become slower overall.''

The UI problem can be felt on the Z4 workstation that Mr. Merino used at work, the Surface Laptop 3 with Core i7 he owned, and the main machine Mac Pro as shown in the movie.

In the thread, in response to Mr. Merino's indication, ' Sure, Notepad should be Notepad, but why is this happening? ' Some speculate that ``the latest Notepad is a UWP version of a packaged application, so it may take a long time to start up because it requires various system components.'' is speculated.

Others referred to the performance adage ' Wirth's Law ' that 'software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.'

In addition, while acknowledging Mr. Merino's experiment that Twitter turned off the notification because there were too many reactions, ``No one seriously opposes this survey result ,'' ``Modern Windows may be acting insane. Windows 2000 (Server) is the best! ”, while others agreed that “ OS design peaked with Windows 2000, at least in terms of user experience .”

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