31 Dec
2017
31 Dec
'17
5:30 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 05:43:34PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017, ben via cctalk wrote:
I reckon if I did a side-by-side cold boot of ye olde Amiga 1000 into Workbench
to launch memacs versus firing up my Mac laptop and launching Emacs.app,
there'd be not much in it.
I also very rarely reboot my laptop. Close the lid, and it goes to sleep. Open
the lid -- and perhaps wait 5-10s if it had been asleep for long enough that it
decided to suspend-to-disk and needed to pull the memory image back in -- and
it's ready to continue where I left off.
I find I want use computers less , 5+ minutes to
boot something that then
needs to check the net. I use a all valve audio system and tubes are warmed
up and ready to go before my music app exits the splash screen.
The
"modern" computer is much faster, but it takes forever and a half before
it is ready to use that speed. Why did anybody ever need more than 64K?
There's no *need*, just like there's no *need* for computers at all.
But since we have computers with multiple gigabytes of RAM, it makes little
sense to restrain one's use of them to a fraction of the capabilities, except
as an intellectual exercise.