[rescue] several second lag...

[Mike Free]

yah, I'm thinking something is wrong as well. I set up a friend of mine with
the cheapest PC possible, ended up with a P100 with 32 megs of ram and a 1
gig hard drive. She runs AOL, and win95, and generally PSP also, which is
reasonably quick... other than loading time, and some processing, everything
seems to run pretty smoothly, otherwise I'd be cranking together a
replacement in short order....

Mike Free
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Hansen" <n2vip at yahoo.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...


> Joshua,
>
> That there is a lag on her system in IE5 is a suprise - I have a laptop
> w/P133, 80 Megs running Win98 that has no such delays - she must have
> something seriously wrong with her setup. For example, does she have
active
> desktop on? Are there alot of things running in her "system tray"? She
> should not have those types of problems... Some more RAM would help (128
Meg
> is real noce for Win9X).
>
> As for the systems listed, the TRS-80 had a system clock of about 2 MHz
Z-80
> (Could be clocked, IIRC), the Apple IIe was about the same, a 2 MHz 6502.
> The Toshiba and Kaypro CP/M machines were probably 4 MHz.
>
> My point was that I have never had delays like you describe, and all I can
> think (based on what you are telling me) is that her Win98 install is
FSCKed
> up...
>
> Ken
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...
>
>
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:38:00AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > I didn't say a machine clocked under 200mhz, I said a modern Windows
> > machine clocked under 200mhz.  Specifically, my sisters computer
(200mmx,
> > 64megs of ram (had more but a dimm failed, and haven't replaced it),
4gig
> > ultra scsi) has Win98, office 97, AOL 6, IE5, etc.  IE5 is the program
> > most likely to have several second keystroke delays.  Word has some
delay
> > but pretty much always less than 1 sec.
> >
> > > Honestly, what is the slowest system clock/CPU/OS combination you have
> used?
> >
> > Hmm, don't know.  It could be a TRS-80 Model 100, an Apple 2, a Toshiba
> > T100 CPM machine, a Kaypro CPM machine.  I don't know what the clock
rates
> > were on any of those systems.
> >
> > --
> > Joshua D. Boyd
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