On Tue, 24 May 2011 09:14:07 -0700 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 01:17 AM, Yorvyk wrote: > > > A 700 MHz PIII Celeron with 256 MiB of PC100 RAM and a 100 MHz drive > > is quite usable. A 200 MHZ PIII Celeron and 128 MiB of 66MHz RAM > > with a 33 MHz drive is dog slow. If you add a screen reader into > > the mix I think the later set-up would become unusable. > > I'm now confused. > > (A) I am not used to seeing drive (presumably hard disk drive) > performance being measured in Mhz -- what *is* this? > > The common ways to gauge hard drive performance that I know of are: > > * sustained data transfer rate (in MBytes/sec) > * sustained I/O operations per second (IOPS/sec) > > Lower level (and IMO less useful) measures include average seek time, > and rotational latency... those are measured in milliseconds, not MHz. > Conventional hard drives are (generally speaking) never bottlenecked by > their theoretical maximum interface data transfer speed, so this is not > a useful drive performance metric (but *is* sometimes measured in MHz... > so maybe that is what you are using?). > No idea why I wrote MHz for the drive spec and not MB/s. > (B) This message seem to imply that "accessibility" means "screen > reader", but there is no specification saying that which Phill has > pointed us to yet. > > I suggest that blindness or lack of visual acuity are not the only > things requiring accessibility accommodation in an OS. They *might* be > the #1 priority for accessibility improvements to Lubuntu -- but without > a clear specification (blueprint), we do not know this! > > Jonathan > I was just using the screen reader as an example. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp