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

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From: James McArthur
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 07:41

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G'Day Dan Pop, you wrote:
: In <nevin-2203960538520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:

: >What version of Netscape?  Go to a JavaScript page and let it sit there
: >for a while.  People have reported not only noticeable slowdowns of their
: >machines, but even crashes of the supposedly uncrashable Unix (it has
: >memory protection; how could an app possibly crash it?  How could the
: >Titanic sink?).

: Give me an URL which will cause Netscape 2.0 to crash my Unix box or cut
: the crap.

Okay. Place a large picture on you background.
(The one I used to have was the Enterprise at 1024x768x24)
Pick a graphic intensive sight, and then watch Netscape go bye-byes.

The terminals we use are running the SunOS with 4Mb of Graphics Memory, and
the main server has over 180Mb RAM AFAIK.

Netscape is the ONLY programme I have seen do this too.

: Dan
: --
: Dan Pop
: CERN, CN Division
: Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch 
: Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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From: jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: 8 Apr 1996 07:41:38 GMT
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