In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: hounsell
Or indeed using old software - which was of course, designed to run on old hardware, and the limitations it suffered.
Your mention of Web Servers is a good example of this actually. Old Web Servers are much, much slower than new ones. Why? Mainly, because they were written for old hardware, and were therefore prioritising resources differently. But there were also subtle differences in the problems they solved - ie, web content 10 years ago was far more likely to be static than today. These days, very little content is static, and even less doesn't have some preprocessing done by the server itself (ie, URL rewriting).
Node.js and the like (whatever you think of new-age web stuff like that) would simply not have been possible using old platforms. Today, they power a surprising number of websites.
By User: hounsell
Or indeed using old software - which was of course, designed to run on old hardware, and the limitations it suffered.
Your mention of Web Servers is a good example of this actually. Old Web Servers are much, much slower than new ones. Why? Mainly, because they were written for old hardware, and were therefore prioritising resources differently. But there were also subtle differences in the problems they solved - ie, web content 10 years ago was far more likely to be static than today. These days, very little content is static, and even less doesn't have some preprocessing done by the server itself (ie, URL rewriting).
Node.js and the like (whatever you think of new-age web stuff like that) would simply not have been possible using old platforms. Today, they power a surprising number of websites.