FWIW, in my memory, my old NeXTstation felt as snappy as modern desktops but when I ran across one at the Computer History Museum it felt painfully slow. I've had similar experiences with seeing old video games and finding the quality of the graphics to be much lower than I remembered.
This is just a guess, but I suspect what we remember is strongly influenced by our emotional reactions which in turn are shaped by our expectations. At the time, my expectations were lower. On 2011-12-16 Fri, at 11:14 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > Compare running Squeak on a 40MHz 386 PC (my 1992 computer) with running > the exact same code on a 1GHz Pentium 4 PC (available to me in 2000). > Not even the old MVC interface is really usable on the first while the > second machine can handle Morphic just fine. The quantitive difference > becomes a qualititive one. I didn't feel the same between my 1 MHz Apple > II and the 6MHz PC AT. But of course there was a diffence - to show of > the AT in trade shows we used to run a Microsoft flight simulator called > Jet (later merged with MS Flight Simulator) on that machine side by side > with a 4.77MHz PC XT. It was a fun game on the AT, but looked more like > a slide show on the XT. I still felt I could get by with the Apple II, > however. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
