David Kastrup wrote: > chrisv <[email protected]> writes: > >> David Kastrup wrote: >> >>> I've been working with >>> various kinds of storage media since the middle of the seventies, and >>> dozens of operating systems. >> >> Good for you. The average computer user also has a lot of experience >> with the delays inherent in using CDROMs. > > Running a demand-paging operating system from a CDROM is not something > for which either access patterns or latency and readahead benefits or > buffering strategies are within the normal user experience.
The average person is not thinking about any of that techy stuff. The average person tries running off a CD, sees and hears evidence that there are performance repercussions to doing so, and accepts it. > You should really get off your "everybody except me is a moron" high > horse. Umm... YOU are the one who is saying that everyone is too stupid to figure-out this simple situation. > It has no legs to stand on. LOL Spew some gibberish, maybe that will get you some "legs". > You let your animosities get the better of you. Learn how to take defeat better. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
