Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Nevin ":-]" Liber
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 14:55

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In article <4dqrcv$v60@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
Krishna Swamy) wrote:

> It is too painful when the load is 4 and it takes 12 seconds for
> the "ctrl-z" to actually return you to your prompt.  I did not
> feel like waiting 12 seconds to check on a URL for someone else.

If it's really taking that long, how come reading netnews isn't painful? 
Or are you saying that preemptive multitasking isn't the panacea that all
the Unix advocates make it out to be?
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799

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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 07:55:03 -0700
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson "It's too dang hot!" Arizona
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