Hello Donna; Today's computers seem slower because they are more buggy. I discount that as being almost too obvious.
Is the sense of being slower in the same way the ground underneath the plane you're travelling in seems slower. Perhaps in the same way that World Cup matches seem slow. Is it that the context has expanded faster? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\/| Randy A MacDonald | APL: If you can say it, it's done.. (ram) |/\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |\ | |If you cannot describe what you are doing BSc(Math) UNBF'83 þas a process, you don't know what you're doing. Sapere Aude | - W. E. Deming Natural Born APL'er | Demo website: http://156.34.64.225/ -----------------------------------------------------(INTP)----{ gnat }- ----- Original Message ----- From: "dly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] spreadsheets > > > > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
