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> Yet Atom is still slower and laggier than Notepad running on Windows in 1986.

I would love to see something beyond just a void claim of this. Numbers, a video, literally anything. Even though Atom has a completely different use case than Notepad, one is for a quick edit of a file and one is for managing a project including file indexing, project search, and plugins, I still don't believe this is true. And I don't even like Atom!

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Not against notepad exactly, but there are good numbers comparing it to other text editors on the same computer.

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

You can download the software he wrote and try it for yourself, on your different text editors with plugins etc.

It would be great to post a video or some actual performance numbers, but I don't know where I'd get my hands on a 286 running the original version of Windows.

I'd wager, if you somehow could find it, your nostalgic view of the speed of a computer from the 80s would quickly diminish. Especially when you had to deal with more than one file with Notepad.

I was actually just a kid, so I don't really have nostalgic views of computer performance from the 1980s.

I do remember typing reports in Notepad. We had a PC because my parents couldn't afford a Mac.

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