[rescue] several second lag...

[Ken Hansen]

Joshua,

That there is a lag on her system in IE5 is a suprise - I have a laptop
w/P133, 80 Megs running Win98 that has no such delays - she must have
something seriously wrong with her setup. For example, does she have active
desktop on? Are there alot of things running in her "system tray"? She
should not have those types of problems... Some more RAM would help (128 Meg
is real noce for Win9X).

As for the systems listed, the TRS-80 had a system clock of about 2 MHz Z-80
(Could be clocked, IIRC), the Apple IIe was about the same, a 2 MHz 6502.
The Toshiba and Kaypro CP/M machines were probably 4 MHz.

My point was that I have never had delays like you describe, and all I can
think (based on what you are telling me) is that her Win98 install is FSCKed
up...

Ken


----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...


> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:38:00AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Joshua,
> >
> > You *can't* be serious!
> >
> > Several seconds delay? Try this little expreiment:
> >
> >     <simulate pressing a key on the keyboard>
> >
> >     Repeat the following out loud:
> >         one thousand one
> >         one thousand two
> >         one thousand three
> >
> >     <simulate seeing the key you pressed displaying on the screen>
> >
> > You *really* think that is what it is like to use a machine with a CPU
> > clocked under 200 MHz?
>
> I didn't say a machine clocked under 200mhz, I said a modern Windows
> machine clocked under 200mhz.  Specifically, my sisters computer (200mmx,
> 64megs of ram (had more but a dimm failed, and haven't replaced it), 4gig
> ultra scsi) has Win98, office 97, AOL 6, IE5, etc.  IE5 is the program
> most likely to have several second keystroke delays.  Word has some delay
> but pretty much always less than 1 sec.
>
> > Honestly, what is the slowest system clock/CPU/OS combination you have
used?
>
> Hmm, don't know.  It could be a TRS-80 Model 100, an Apple 2, a Toshiba
> T100 CPM machine, a Kaypro CPM machine.  I don't know what the clock rates
> were on any of those systems.
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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