On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Dekorte wrote: > >> [NeXTStation memories versus reality] > > I still have a running Apple II. My slowest working PC is a 33MHz 486, > so I can't directly do the comparison I mentioned. But I agree we > shouldn't trust what we remember things feeling like. > > -- Jecel
The Apple booting up faster was not simply a feeling, but a fact owing to its human-computer interaction demands. They set fast boot speeds as a design criteria. Jef Raskin talks about this in the book The Humane Interface. Even modern attempts to reduce boot speed have not been that good, such as "upstart", an event-driven alternative to "init". Eugen has some very good points about human limits of managing performance details, though. Modern approaches to performance are already moving away from such crude methods. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
