Der erfahrene Microsoft-Ingenieur sagt, dass der ursprüngliche Task-Manager nur 80 KB groß war, sodass er problemlos auf Computern der 90er-Jahre ausgeführt werden konnte – das ursprüngliche Dienstprogramm nutzte eine intelligente Technik, um festzustellen, ob es sich um die einzige laufende Instanz handelte
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/veteran-microsoft-engineer-says-original-task-manager-was-only-80kb-so-it-could-run-smoothly-on-90s-computers-original-utility-used-a-smart-technique-to-determine-whether-it-was-the-only-running-instance
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I now see Microsoft as a rubber boat with so many patches on it, you can’t see what color it was. Everything is just slapped into it in various places and you feel that as a user.
Every programmer in the world should be required to internalize the conclusion of this video
And that explains why task manager kept getting slower and worse.
>“Task Manager came from a very different mindset. It came from a world where a page fault was something you felt, where low memory conditions had a weird smell, where if you made the wrong thing redraw too often, you could practically hear the guys in the offices moaning,” he said. “And while I absolutely do not want to go back to that old hardware, I do wish we had carried more of that taste. Not the suffering, the taste, the instinct to batch work, to cache the right things, to skip invisible work, to diff before repainting, to ask the kernel once instead of a hundred times, to load rare data rarely, to be suspicious of convenience when convenience sends a bill to the user.”
He talks about a time when computer programming was still more engineering than development. And obviously that distinction is becoming even more abstracted as you can increasingly get away with programming in vernacular English.
People do still do his type of programming, but it’s usually for embedded systems on integrated circuits and they are rightfully called engineers.
He has 2 channels Dave’s Attic and Dave’s Garage and both are very good and worth the time.
I can’t even open the task manager reliably these days. It lags the fuck out
really all of the bloat is just from ads, microservices, and data analytics for selling more ads and microservices
this guy makes a whole living out once making a simple utility for windows.
I’m a media artist (Visual Effects and Sound)
My DAW (digital audio workstation) is on Windows 7×64
Reason; with all networking functionality turned off and all drivers „slimmed“ to where the machine is only running what it needs, the computer instantly boots (3rd gen i7 with SSD), at idle, the processor is always at ‚zero‘. Any piece of software I launch, or window I go to open is immediately ready after a double-click. Other than the desktop’s look, once you’re working in software, you’d swear it was a finly tuned new machine, when it’s actually 14 years old!
Meanwhile, my 15″ Surface Book 2 on Windows 11 takes 30-seconds to launch the calculator app.
Most of the software I use, I still run older versions of, or they still support 7×64.
I’m thinking of making all of my VFX workstations opperate like that old Windows Embedded functionality, where, when you power cycle, it’s all new again, like a fresh install. And all my software licenses are on a NAS or something? With heavy internet restrictions.
I need my machines running like they are purely a tool. Like a drill, saw, or typwriter. You pick up to perform that specific task, it doesn’t need all this bloat.
It is amazing the difference when all networking and internet access is stripped away. I’d like to try the same with a Windows 10 build. I’m 40% sure it won’t work with 11… and it would be a pointless venture to try on 11.
I know the technique he used for multiple instance detection and it was obviously perfectly valid and suitable but there was nothing particularly „smart“ about it. It is exactly what anyone would try as a first attempt.
Dave is super nice guy and explains stuff very well, worth a sub
I look forward to his videos
Must be a slow day if we’re transcribing YT videos with giant slabs of quotes for content.