> Whatever the reason, the standard for a “slow machine” remained unchanged, and soon the level of hardware reached the point where even the cheapest computers on the market easily blew past all the “fast machine” requirements. In Windows NT, the algorithm for determining whether you had a fast or slow machine was therefore simplified to a single step:
> All machines are fast.
Nowadays, I guess the question is not "is this machine slow", it's "is this software slow".
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 11.9 ms ] thread> All machines are fast.
Nowadays, I guess the question is not "is this machine slow", it's "is this software slow".