On Dec 26, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Mike Wohlrab wrote:
> heres something you can do. on a clients maching that you took
> norton off of
> and install visual studio 2005 and see how well the system works.
> my bet is
> that it will be just as slow. but according to M$ you need a 600
> mhz cpu,
> and 192 meg of ram. and we all know that it is not the speed of hte
> processor that makes it fast. norton has gotten a lot better at
> using less
> resources.
Visual Studio is an *application*: it's a reason why you buy a
computer in the first place. Anti-virus programs are a necessary evil
when running a porous OS, but they aren't the reason for the
computer. Apps *should* place burdens on the machine, while
supplementary utilities should not.
-- Ed Leafe
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