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Article #1249Re: New SPARC Classic
From: Andy Newman
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:05
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:05
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lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes: > >Personally, I think that 3.0 on a 16 MB mono machine runs as fast as >I could expect a machine of that price to run. I think that 3.0 on >a 32 MB color machine runs as fast as most users would expect a >personal computer to run. You want to come and use my machine? (3.0 on a 68040 cube with 32 Mb and an ND board with its own 32Mb) Okay it runs with reasonable performance when you do one thing at a time (i.e. typing this while no mail arives for instance) but start a couple of compiles or get some text scrolling in a terminal window and say bye bye to reasonable response and hello to the puke colo[u]red cursor! -- Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!metro!mama!andy From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic Message-ID: <BxtxD6.4CF@research.canon.oz.au> Sender: news@research.canon.oz.au Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia References: <BxMnKq.A45@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.050523.2796@cs.yale.edu> <BxoGH5.9xn@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:05:29 GMT Lines: 15