Finds

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed May 31 14:08:37 2000

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 Wed May 31 2000 - 14:08:37 BST

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