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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.

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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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