[geeks] OSX 10.4.2, FireFox 1.0.5 out

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Jul 15 09:31:18 CDT 2005


On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:24:55PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 23:08, Nate wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > 
> > > Thu, 14 Jul 2005 @ 09:36 -0400, Kurt Huhn said:
> > >> I see nothing there indicating that the developer macs are
> > >> outperforming G5s.  I see a vague reference to "as little as 10
> > >> seconds" to boot to the desktop.  Now there's a reliable benchmark!!
> > >> Not.
> > >
> > > Hey, Windows users put quite a lot of value into quick reboots... :)
> > 
> > "One neat thing about Suns is that they really boot fast. You ought to see 
> > one boot, if you haven't already. It's inspiring to those of us whose 
> > LispMs take all morning to boot."
> 
> Hey, mine boot into the OF real fast...  :-)  Or did they mean
> something other than Forth? 

Well, a Sun might take 10 minutes, but how long does a Symbolics, LMI,
or TI take to boot?  45?

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