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On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:00:38 -0400
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > Not every PC made in those years was crap.  Some of them were quite
> > reliable and lasted long.  
> 
> But back then, Dennard scaling meant that an 8 year-old PC was so much
> slower than a current PC that it was difficult to find people willing
> to still use it.
> 
> Nowadays, for a large proportion of tasks, you can't really tell the
> difference between a last-generation CPU and an 8 year-old CPU, so the
> reliability is much more of a factor.
> 
> 
>         Stefan

In March 1992 as a new employee I was given a PC based on 386SX. 
I don't remember if the clock was 16 MHz or 20 MHz, but no more than 20.
1.5 years later when I started to work at client's site for the most of
my time, this PC was still my only desktop when I was coming back to
office. 
High-end PC made in 1986, e.g. Compaq Deskpro 386, would be
non-trivially faster than this cheap, but far from the cheapest,
computer that I used daily 7.5 years later.

Did it feel so slow that was difficult to use? No, for what I was doing
it wasn't.