[rescue] several second lag...

[Ken Hansen]

Joshua,

You *can't* be serious!

Several seconds delay? Try this little expreiment:

    <simulate pressing a key on the keyboard>

    Repeat the following out loud:
        one thousand one
        one thousand two
        one thousand three

    <simulate seeing the key you pressed displaying on the screen>

You *really* think that is what it is like to use a machine with a CPU
clocked under 200 MHz?

Every MS product, from DOS 1.X on 4.77 MHz 8088 systems on to todays 1.4 GHz
WinXP monsters has had the text appear "instantly" on the screen after
typing it.

Honestly, what is the slowest system clock/CPU/OS combination you have used?

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #1783 - 14 msgs


> > Personally, I dont think people can tell a difference between a
> > 200Mhz CPU and a 1.4Ghz CPU, if you take away things like HD
> > speed / program loading time / etc.
>
> The difference is that on a 1.4ghz machine, you type and as you do what
> you type appears on the screen, but on a 200mhz machine there is a several
> second lag between typing and seeing.  This occurs only under certain OSs
> mind you.



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