On 30 Sep 2000, at 19:50, Robert Deering wrote:
> ... or a CD burner. Any way to put that image on an HD and use it?
The 1.4M disk is still available, at least from my local mirror -
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/qnx/demodisk/
> It's become quite plain that to do anything with a _reasonable_ machine
> (a 286/12 is reasonable, a 386SX moreso, anything > p120 is absurd) one
Please explain why/how >p120 is absurd. While I agree 386-486
class machines can still be useful (not as much <=286 though), I
also think that faster computers help in other areas. (Try doing
complex mathematical operations on a SurvPC. Come back days
later. An operation that took 16 hours on a K6-2/400 takes 5 hours
on my new Duron 650. Imagine how long anything less would take,
not to mention overheads of processing 4GB of data).
Even HTML rendering can take a bit of CPU power. Look how slow
Arachne is! Theoretically it should cain, but for the most part it is
actually slower than windows browsers on the same machine.
(Probably because more of them is in memory, the use of 32 bit
instructions, and accelerated graphics cards, etc) (And I know
some people have optimised their Arachne, and made it faster, but
the way HTML is, it can be tricky rendering it)
...hmm this has deviated somewhat from QNX. (That I haven't even
tried yet)
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