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Article #2961Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:19
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:19
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In article <nevin-2001960755430001@150.135.1.79>, Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote: >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? I don't know. I can hit "n" and go to the next article and it only took about 2 seconds when the load was that high. >Or are you saying that preemptive multitasking isn't the panacea that all >the Unix advocates make it out to be? It seems to work fine for me. There were about 35 users on with the load around 4. I expect it to be slow. Ravi -- Ravi K. Swamy http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/ rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu root@genom.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!rkswamy From: rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy) 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: 20 Jan 1996 15:19:55 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Message-ID: <4dr16r$9f@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <nevin-2001960401320001@150.135.1.79> <4dqrcv$v60@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <nevin-2001960755430001@150.135.1.79> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc04du.unity.ncsu.edu