Running DOS 6.22 on a SSD on an i7 (can only use 1 proc, but 3-4GHz is pretty fast).
Runs pretty fast IMO. But that's not really the issue. OSes do 1000x more than they ever did in the past, and if you go boot up some mid 80s or 90s machine, you'll see how much faster OSes actually are.
I play around on my old Pentium 133 from time to time, I always forget how long it took to load programs (at the time it seemed blazing fast ~1996).
It's funny, I was in a recent discussion in a BBS group on Facebook, and the question came up regarding running older DOS programs.. imho emulation is plenty fast, but some consistently balked at the idea because it was too slow... I remember running some of those programs for only a single user on 386/486 class hardware, and its leaps and bounds faster today with a dozen users, and a bunch of other stuff running on a server.
Now, for the past 5-6 years computers really haven't gotten much faster (CPU or memory-wise)... they've gotten much lower power, and with SSDs becoming more common place that helps a lot. It will be interesting to see how the next few years shapes up.
It would be nice to see a ground up OS effort... I think ChromeOS is a decent attempt, but think it could be better with a slightly cleaner baseline.
Runs pretty fast IMO. But that's not really the issue. OSes do 1000x more than they ever did in the past, and if you go boot up some mid 80s or 90s machine, you'll see how much faster OSes actually are.
I play around on my old Pentium 133 from time to time, I always forget how long it took to load programs (at the time it seemed blazing fast ~1996).