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Win2k and XP definitely fept snappy at that time on new hardware. It's easily verifiable by installing OS' of the time on machine of the appropriate time. Functionality-wise I have no idea what is it exactly that modern OS' do that's 'a lot more'. There are a lot more of abstractions going on which is for sure.

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Running the old hardware the main thing missing is modern web browsing, with security, certificates, https, tls, and javascript.

How is that related to testing OS responsiveness of the time or.. at all?

Lack of window animation alone makes things feel snappy.

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