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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 11:02:09 GMT, Tore Eriksson
<tore.eriksson@mbox325.swipnet.se> wrote:
Followup-to: .geek.
> So I have a Pentium 450 with 12 Gb HD and 128 Mb RAM and Win98. It takes
> two minutes from power-on to have get a blank notepad window opened.
> Same thing takes less than a minute on my old Pentium 120 with Win95. It
If this si true, there are configuration issues. Win98 is not much
slower than 95.
> took less than 20 seconds from power-on to launch Norton Commander on my
> 286, and my Luxor ABC-80 loaded its Basic compiler (well, sort of
> Basic...) even before the monitor was lit.
Doesn't look as good, though, does it?
> So I have a 56k modem. It takes 43 seconds to get online. It also fails
> occationally. My old USR 28.8 takes 34 seconds and makes a much more
> reliable connection.
You're comparing a USR with a no-brand-mentioned. also, 56k is a
fairly unreliable protocol.
>
> So I have a DVD player with a fantastic spin rate (I don't remember how
> much). It takes 15 seconds to enter the file system on an average CD. It
> even fails to read some commercial CD:s. My first CD player had 2x spin
> and no servo motor to insert/eject the CD, but the file system was found
> almost immediately.
You know why, don't you? The motor has to spin up much more.
It's a trade-off between warm-up time and speed (botrh in bandwidth
and in access times)
> So I have the latest Netscape Communicator. It won't even load on my 486
> laptop and is painfully slow on my new "powerful" machine. Netscape
> Navigator 3.0 for example, loads much, much faster on any Win3.x
> machine.
Absolutely. Nav3 is a much slower, much more efficient creature than
the bloated monstrosity that is Netscape.
> For some reason, the word "powerful" seems to me more and more equal to
> "slow". Yes, I know I'm not fair. The same POV rendering that took 5:57
> on my P120 takes 1:03 on my P450. But while some "cool" effects like 3D
> stuff get faster, it seems the basics like booting up, checking mailbox,
> plain word processing gets slower the more "powerful" your hard- and
> software is.
Get into slightly less sucky OSes, and you'll have a lot less of those
problems.
Non ex transverso sed deorsum.
All hardware sucks, all software sucks.
Jasper
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