On 10-Jun-06, at 8:47 PM, Randy MacDonald wrote:
I'd love to see examples of where today's computers seem slower
than those
of the 1970s. It's just not the impression I get.
A bug in the MS Window operating system was slowing down and crashing
a Web system used for realtime activation of cellular phones.
Investigated for four years before I came along and demonstrated that
MS OS was not doing proper garbage collection and memory management.
MS had kept blaming the application code (Visual Basic) which did
have performance problems of its own--mostly limitations of the
language.
Donna
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