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From: chas@netcom.COM (Chuck Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Version 7.0 questions
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.174423.18278@netcom.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 91 17:44:23 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.153415.3908@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1991Apr9.003731.10182@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1930@camex.COM>
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In article <1930@camex.COM> kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg) writes:
>Fight Computer Gluttony!!

I agree.  Us old-timers remember when memory was at a premium and we
made every byte count.  Nowadays it seems that developers get sloppy
and this is especially true where virtual memory is assumed.  I've
worked on Sun workstations that seemed to take an interminable amount
of time to start up some applications in spite of the MIP/SPECmark
ratings in the teens.  All that I/O has to be squeezed through SCSI and
Sun's I/O is not proportionally fast with its processors.  I hope that
with System 7 we won't have bloated Mac applications like I have seen
some workstation applications.

Chuck

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