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Article #2955Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:00
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:00
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In article <4doefv$jg5@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
Krishna Swamy) wrote:
> I type "lynx http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/" at my prompt.
> It works fine, but I was reading news and did not feel like
> hitting "ctrl-z" and then running Lynx.
Er, what's the point of having a system that has a CLI as a selling point
when it's most adamant supporters start claiming that it is too painful to
actually use it? Yeah, sure CLIs are faster.
> I was already compiling
> some other stuff in the background with "make &" and since
> there were already about 35 other users on the machine making
> the load around 4, I did not feel like like taking the time
> to check the url since the machine was already too slow to start
> with.
Are you saying that lynx puts a significant load on your system?
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Nevin ":-)" Liber nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (520) 293-2799
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CS.Arizona.EDU!NewsWatcher!user From: nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 04:00:52 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona Message-ID: <nevin-2001960401320001@150.135.1.79> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <nevin-1801961639090001@150.135.1.79> <4dmovb$bk7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <jragosta-1901960950050001@ppp-1019.dca.net> <4doefv$jg5@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.7