31 May
2000
31 May
'00
3:08 p.m.
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