Hi, And MS networking is still very slow if something is not out there or dies on the network - it sits in some sort of tight loop eating all the cpu cycles until a timeout occurs. I don't think things there changed much since the early W9X/NT days (it's suprising how much of the code behind the new OS's appears to be copied from prior versions)....
Jim D. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to leaking pen's message of Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:31:49 -0700: > Hi, > [snip] >>Its saving things, turning off individual processes that do not take >>kindly to just shutting down, and making sure the disk is no longer in >>use. >> >>as for speed, >> >>the intel 80286 chip, released in 1982 was 6 mhz. high end pcs these >>days are 3 ghz. about 500 times faster. > > I don't think the increase in memory speed (let alone disk speed) has been > anywhere near as dramatic, hence the "real" speed increase is probably > considerably less. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html > >
