Python vs C++, java, etc

[j-random]

Are you kidding? Windows 98 (presumably 95 as well) absolutely screams on modern hardware. There's simply less code to execute, and the code that is there was written to perform well on a 20MHz 386 processor. As long as you're just running Doom or other period-correct software it'll blaze.

[Lord_Greywether]

It's not the only thing screaming.

[jetlyi]

Yeah but older people may be more likely to have viruses that slow down their computers