[rescue] misc old Sun resources

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Sun Jul 21 12:25:56 CDT 2002


On 2002.07.21 18:26 Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Really, folks.  Computers don't get slower with time.  With the
> exception of MP3 playing and video hacking, have our applications for
> our machines really changed all that much since, say, the IPX was new?
> Note that by "applications" I mean "reading email" or "writing code",
> not "playing around with KDE" which can tank all but the very fastest
> of systems.
Amen!

Really. I am sitting in front of a 500MHz EV56 Alpha with 640MB RAM.
What is this machine doing 99.9% of its time? Waiting fo a key press or
mouse click. (OK. I must admit that it is nice to LaTeX 100 pages in <
10 s. :-)  )
-- 



tsch,
         Jochen

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