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lproventoday at 10:55 AM1 replyview on HN

It's quite remarkable, isn't it?

It is how Linux used to be in the 1990s: tiny, simple, blindingly fast compared to the big lumbering commercial OSes...

... Which now are also Linux. Which is terribly terribly sad.


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OriginalPenguintoday at 3:36 PM

They weren’t blindingly fast then. The hardware was so much slower in the 90s. It’s difficult to remember just how slow a 5400rpm hard drive was.