Re: OT thoughts on computers of the future ...

[Flip ter Biecht]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:51:17 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> IMHO, Something must be very wrong with your config.

> On this P150 from "switch-on" to "autoexec done" is 36 seconds.
> (that's right.... 36sec)

> The last line of autoexec runs arr.bat which....
> 1) sets-up a 64mb RamDisk (this machine has 80mb of Ram)
> 2) unzips Arachne to the RamDisk
> 3) starts Arachne
> 4) dials and connects
> 5) downloads eMail
> 6) exits Arachne
> 7) copies eMail over to HDD


Nice, But why wouldn't you just save 2 megs extra for a diskcache, and
put mail directly to the hdd? (Obviously the bottleneck while
downloading is modem speed, not hdd writes, and mail on a ramdisk is
still quite a risky business with Arachne, especially since a lot of us
tend to share the more risky URL's...

Bart
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