[geeks] RE: [the processor speed wars...]

[Ken Hansen]

Well, my point was that after a certain speed, the benefit is almost non-existant (for the general user).

Sure, faster is better, but honestly, how often do folks sit around complaining about how slow their 300 UltraSPARC system is? or their 500 MHz Celeron *BSD workstaion is?

I can remember line editing on a TTY, and that was slow...

(I am *still* scared by my years with TRS-80s - everytime I go to hit the backspace key, I check that I do not have th shift key down - more than once I lost an entire line of text by making that mistake!)

With a reasonably modern video card and a PII/400 or up, you will probably not notice *any* screen refreshes/redraws under typical use (sure, you could run 50 ico sessions and slow down the display ;^)...

Did I say stop making faster CPUs? No. I was only commenting on the real value of anything significantly faster than a PII/500 or so for *most* users.

I doubt anyone here (by the simple virtue of *being here*) is considered a "typical" user...

Ken

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From: Brian Hechinger [mailto:wonko at arkham.ws]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:37 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] RE: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] T H
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 07:12:37PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> Maybe I'm just old, but I fail to see the point in anything over PIII/500 or so (at least for my own personal use... I can't type any faster... ;^)

i have a single 150Mhz HyperSPARC in the sparc20 on my desk that is my only
workstation.  would i like a faster computer?  sure, why not, who wouldn't.
but on the other hand, i've found that with a little patience i can even do
GIMP work on this thing. :)

> I await with baited-breath, an SBUS All-In-Wonder 128 so I can watch TV on my IPX!

yummy though!

-brian
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