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Feb 01, 20151 min read

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  • URL: https://x.com/EricLengyel/status/561780320588947457
  • Author: Eric Lengyel (@EricLengyel)
  • Posted: 2015-02-01 06:57:20

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TextEdit just took 20 sec to open a 1 kB plain text file. Goddammit, my old Apple ][e was faster at getting simple things done than my iMac.

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  • Feb 01, 2015

    @EricLengyel I was snarking about VC++'s start-up speed in 1999.

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