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Re: What is "powerful"?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:55:48 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tore Eriksson writes:
> > 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
> > 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.
> > [...]
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> Isn't "progress" great? ;-)
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> > 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.
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> Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system
> vendor.
Boot up time issues aren't unique to Windows. I was always annoyed at
how long OS/2 took to boot up at work. Now that I use AIX on an RS/6000,
Windows and OS/2 start up instantly by comparison, though a large part
of the slowness of AIX starting up is that it takes 20 minutes to flush
the cache for AFS (Andrew File System). I also used to be really annoyed
that not only did my work machine running OS/2 take longer than my home
machine running Windows (Win 3.1 at the time) to load up, it asked you
questions several times during the process (mostly power on password and
log on password, but seems like there was another thing which needed
responding to), result was that it took several coffee breaks to get
productive...
For simplicity, one of my favorites was using Turbo Pascal 3.0 as my
text editor, booting a Compaq portable (the original PC compatible one
without a hard drive) from floppy. I always liked the fact that if in
the middle of writing a document, I needed to write a quicky program, I
had the compiler right there. I had hacked the executeable so that I
didn't have to answer the question about whether I wanted the error
messages or not, I had one version which assumed yes and another that
assumed no.
--
Frank Filz
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Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Isn't "progress" great? ;-) (...) Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system vendor. They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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