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Windows 95 could be very snappy... except when you started copying files to an external hard disk, or if your disk was too fragmented, or if you ran out of memory and things started being swapped out, or you had a buggy hardware driver, or you had a virus, or you had an antivirus program, for that matter...

I think there's a lot of nostalgia at play here. There's a lot of ways in which modern computing is far nicer than it was in the past.

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> I think there's a lot of nostalgia at play here

I don't think that's the case with latency, as we can measure that directly.

> There's a lot of ways in which modern computing is far nicer than it was in the past.

And resource consumption and latency isn't one of them.

My delight at lower latency pretty quickly evaporates in the face of a spinning hourglass. I'd rather have consistent availability at the expense of latency.

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