An ISP of their own (was RE: [rescue] Being jobless)

[Henry R. Bent]

vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Henry R. Bent wrote:
> 
> > > > I haven't found Mozilla to be too bad (nightly build 2003063013)....
> > > > but then again, I'm running it on an Ultra 60 with a 450MHZ proc and
> > > > a good deal of memory.
> > > >
> > > > It does run slow on the dual SM71 SS20.... although it is still
> > > > usable as long as you do not need to do LOTS of web based work.
> > >
> > > Try it on a machine the speed of an RS/6000 37T.  That's a pretty fast
> > > machine
> >
> > I'm gonna have to call you out on that one.  Anything with a 62.5MHz
> > POWER in it isn't what I'd classify as a "fast machine."
> 
> It *easily* outruns a U1/200 on many things.

Hm...  are you talking processor-dependent things, or OS-dependent things?  I
can totally see how the 37T could feel much faster for work with, say, the
window system.  My DECstation 5000/260 with a PXG+ Turbo feels quite fast, but I
don't think I'd ever load Mozilla on it.

-- 
Henry Bent
hbent at cs.oberlin.edu