On 7/15/2010 5:59 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Warp escreveu:
>> I have heard the claim that Windows is the only operating system where
>> each
>> new version has been slower than the previous version (iow. other
>> OS'es, both
>> free and commercial, try to always be faster or at the very least equally
>> fast than the previous version).
>
> that's obviously not true in the large. It's certainly possible to
> optimize and improve released versions by fixing bugs etc. So, SP3 Vista
> is certainly better and faster than BS1 Vista. But in the long run, a
> next iteration of any OS includes far too many new features, extra APIs
> and such that it's certainly slower than previous iterations from years
> ago. Try running Ubuntu on 2001 gear... or even some pure CLI Linux from
> Scratch based on 2.6 kernel rather than ancient 2.4...
>

I think he was getting at that new OS's are faster - on faster hardware 
of course.  But somehow each version of windows is usually much slower - 
even on faster hardware.

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