Comment by jerf

There is a lot of fuzz in that comparison. I used machines at that time. They were not snappy if you had the average specs. I am not convinced he got that in his comparison. In particular modern iterations of those old machines are usually stuffed with RAM by comparison because since then it has become so dirt cheap to do that that it's not worth not doing it. I acknowledge he at least tried but I'm not convinced he succeeded and even by his own text you can tell he's not exactly putting a huge marker down on the older system being the exact right system. Average specs typically dipped into swap. (The supposed minimum specs were often a joke.)

"accept"

I'm a bit at a loss as to how anything I said sounds like we should accept this. Did I not call it almost sociopathic how IT departments manage to slow machines down for people who have no social power? Does that sound like I think this is hunky dory?