> I don't remember the norm being "desktop apps which started in an instant 20 years ago".
What keeps happening is-- we get an upgrade, and then have some old applications, and they become "instant" in comparison to our experience with both newer stuff and the application in the past. Then we watch that win clawed away from us.
Of course, it was never instant, even with the old or newer hardware.
My brother spoke a few weeks ago of being awestruck and programs starting "instantly" when he got a hard disk on DOS on the XT. But now I have a better-than-XT-equivalent (9.54MHz V20) with a very fast IO subsystem and I can tell you that it is very much not actually instant.
What keeps happening is-- we get an upgrade, and then have some old applications, and they become "instant" in comparison to our experience with both newer stuff and the application in the past. Then we watch that win clawed away from us.
Of course, it was never instant, even with the old or newer hardware.
My brother spoke a few weeks ago of being awestruck and programs starting "instantly" when he got a hard disk on DOS on the XT. But now I have a better-than-XT-equivalent (9.54MHz V20) with a very fast IO subsystem and I can tell you that it is very much not actually instant.