Finds

From: Technoid Mutant <Technoid_at_cheta.net>
Date: Thu Jun 1 18:23:59 2000

I run Netscape Communicator 4.7 on my 25mhz single-processor SparcStation 330
and don't think performance is horrible. It takes about 90 seconds to launch
Netscape but only four seconds to launch subsequent copies. For an 11 year-old
machine it is excellent! I say this in response to your comment about the
relative nature of the term 'acceptable performance'. My AMD k63-400 running
OS/2 Warp 4 takes less than a second to launch Netscape 4.61 from scratch.....



Jason McBrien wrote:

> I've got several machines I use for different purposes. I've got a 700MHz
> Athlon with Windoze 'cause Unreal Tournament just sucks on a DECStation 5000
> :) But the DEC makes a really nice webserver, and the SPARCStation 10 can
> run Netscape SuiteSpot servers OK but I wouldn't want to run Communicator on
> it.
> (Netscape is comparatively slow on my Ultra 10 at work) A place for
> everything and everything in it's place.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Finds
>
> > On May 31, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > > Of course since I have a 60Mhz RS/6000 on my desk at work and refuse to
> > > give it up for a state of the art single or dual processor PC my
> opinions
> > > of acceptable speed might be a little outside the norm :^)
> > >
> > > Remember for most things stability is more important that speed.
> >
> > While I agree 100%, it would seem that the unfortunate proliferation
> > of PeeCees have all but killed that mindset. I suspect that most of
> > us fight very hard to keep it alive.
> >
> > But...on the term "acceptable speed"...isn't that completely
> > subjective? I mean, what's acceptable to you might be too slow for
> > Joe Blow, or uselessly fast for Jane Doe...Intel would have us believe
> > that we all do the exact same thing with our computers, and that the
> > only possible thing that we should find acceptable is *their* brand of
> > high-performance...i.e. blindingly fast until you try to do more than
> > one thing at a time, then it goes into the toilet.
> >
> > Man, if your RS/6000 does the job, and you like it, then keep it,
> > and more power to you!
> >
> >
> > -Dave McGuire
> >
Received on Thu Jun 01 2000 - 18:23:59 BST