1 Jun
2000
1 Jun
'00
7:23 p.m.
I run Netscape Communicator 4.7 on my 25mhz single-processor SparcStation 330
and don't think performance is horrible. It takes about 90 seconds to launch
Netscape but only four seconds to launch subsequent copies. For an 11 year-old
machine it is excellent! I say this in response to your comment about the
relative nature of the term 'acceptable performance'. My AMD k63-400 running
OS/2 Warp 4 takes less than a second to launch Netscape 4.61 from scratch.....
Jason McBrien wrote:
I've got several machines I use for different
purposes. I've got a 700MHz
Athlon with Windoze 'cause Unreal Tournament just sucks on a DECStation 5000
:) But the DEC makes a really nice webserver, and the SPARCStation 10 can
run Netscape SuiteSpot servers OK but I wouldn't want to run Communicator on
it.
(Netscape is comparatively slow on my Ultra 10 at work) A place for
everything and everything in it's place.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Finds
On May 31, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Of course since I have a 60Mhz RS/6000 on my desk at work and refuse to
> give it up for a state of the art single or dual processor PC my
opinions
> > of acceptable speed might be a little outside the norm :^)
> >
> > Remember for most things stability is more important that speed.
>
> While I agree 100%, it would seem that the unfortunate proliferation
> of PeeCees have all but killed that mindset. I suspect that most of
> us fight very hard to keep it alive.
>
> But...on the term "acceptable speed"...isn't that completely
> subjective? I mean, what's acceptable to you might be too slow for
> Joe Blow, or uselessly fast for Jane Doe...Intel would have us believe
> that we all do the exact same thing with our computers, and that the
> only possible thing that we should find acceptable is *their* brand of
> high-performance...i.e. blindingly fast until you try to do more than
> one thing at a time, then it goes into the toilet.
>
> Man, if your RS/6000 does the job, and you like it, then keep it,
> and more power to you!
>
>
> -Dave McGuire
>