12 Oct
2012
12 Oct
'12
10:59 p.m.
Phoronix also specializes in (usually really, really bad) benchmarks. "Old" also means "slow" to these people -- even though new software is almost always slower than old software, they imagine that a constant process of fierce optimization has actually sped it up, and the power of the placebo effect takes over.
My 486 with 16MB RAM running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with the Norton Desktop 2.0 in many ways runs circles around modern desktops. I have the same environment on a partition on a PI system and the desktop just screams compared to any modern desktop.
Darrell