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From: rhyde@gibson.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
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Subject: Re: The GS Axe is Not Falling
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Date: 10 Apr 91 17:18:15 GMT
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>> It seems to me that people are more anxious to get a faster processor
>> to speed things up......"Oh goodie, does that mean it's tolerable now"

No.  When every time Apple releases a faster machine (I have a Mac IIfx) the
software developers write a new round of software which runs slower.  I went
from a Lisa to Mac II to Mac IIci to Mac IIfx.  Each time I thought "gee,
I finally get a machine that runs the software 'fast enough'."  Never happened.
If the macIIfx were twice the speed it is now (what a 40Mhz 040 would supply)
it would be fast enough for the software we have available *today*.  The day
Apple releases such a machine, current software products will be bloated to the
point where they run *half* the speed of today's applications.  This is why I'm
so upset about people writing applications in HLLs.