On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 07:20, robin wrote:Although there will be a Linux version, I get the impression that the main target initially will be Solaris, and the kind of people who run Solaris generally have more CPU cycles than they know what to do with.
...just wonder what type of resource it's going to require...and how fast it'll run on my sad little AMD XP2000...
Well, if you thought KDE was resource-hungry ....
Sir Robin
Cray-DE and Guh-nome can't live in my world. Dog-awful slow. Like a herd of turtles crossing a plain of peanut butter. In the winter. The screenshots DID look rather interesting, but doing things from an xterm in 3D just don't sound right.
For the rest of us, the mere fact that it's written in Java sounds ominous.
Q: How many Java programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: As many as Sun can throw at it. They change it with lightning speed, but now there's a ten second delay between flipping the switch and the light coming on.
Sir Robin
-- "If the lion could speak, we would not understand it." - Wittgenstein
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