8 Apr
2004
8 Apr
'04
11:44 a.m.
Really great index! Just break it up into chunks, it does load slow,
but it's otherwise a wonderful thing.
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, John Allain wrote:
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:16:24 -0400
From: John Allain <allain(a)panix.com>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only"
<cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: USPTO computer patent index
As always your comments, suggestions and help are
welcome.
Kinda funky in it's present state. takes just under two minutes to display
(read: display, not download). On this computer that's an estimated 80
billion clock cycles, or perhaps 4 billion instructions. Amazing that it
works. Yikes. Good luck on a rev.2 Thx for starting this.
My suggestion: display the default sortation/selection as static html at the
bottom, for something to look at while the CPU chugs. CGI or PHP
would of course offload it all.
John A.