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Vintage Computer Festival Revisits The PC Past

Posted by timothy on from the first-under-new-management dept.

OaklyBonn writes "The Vintage Computer Festival West is happening today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. I've been to several of these, and they're always a blast. It is always amazing to see the things that our current sotware practices treat as not currently possible on todays machines (like, why is my 1ghz XP box sooo slooow?) Did the Beagle Brothers have a pact with Satan? Are we better off today than in the past?"

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  1. Re:Why is my 1Ghz box so slow? by IM6100 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, if you install Wordstar 3.3 for MS-DOS on current hardware, or even, say, a 386-20 MHz machine, it's unusable.

    The reason it's unusable? Because there isn't keyboard slowdown in the code. You cursor up, and you're at the top of your 80 page document before you can blink. You cursor down, and you're down at the bottom.

    WordStar 3.3 is just too damned fast to run on current hardware. heh.

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